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Why have more than one online Identity

We live in a world where you can type someone’s name into a search engine and find very detailed information about them in seconds via Facebook, twitter and LinkedIn profiles. This has caused identity management on the internet to be a key aspect to understand. Through the ease of access to information on the web, people have begun to create more than one identity that they are associated with. Continue reading →

The online ‘me’: Authentic identity or anonymity?

As I established in Topic 1, the dramatic advance of the Web in recent years has lead to many users becoming ‘residents’ on the Internet. Warburton stresses how one’s identity on social media has become intertwined with their real life identity: Increasingly persistent virtual presence on social media services […] has all but collapsed the boundary between being online and offline. Continue reading →

Topic 2: Online identity, and the choice we must make…

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venice_Carnival_-_Masked_Lovers_(2010).jpg In my last post I spoke about the changing attitudes towards the psychology of web-users in how they use the web. The existence of online trolls is just one example of how people may believe they are in fact more protected and anonymous in their actions online than they truly are, which we may call Online disinhibition effect (1) or even the “Gyges effect”, first mentioned by Plato (2). Continue reading →

Seeing Double: Multiple Online Identities

The concept isn’t a tricky one, but having multiple online identities could almost be described as a phenomenon. People are encouraged to work on their personal development, and building multiple online profiles facilitates this so well. We can create blogs and profile pages which showcase our personalities, talents and expertise. But is the person online really coherent with their offline puppeteer? It’s safe to say that we all get much braver online. Continue reading →

Topic 2: Online Identity

A quick Google of my name shows the usual links to Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin etc, all of which I’ve knowingly placed information into in order to build a profile. But there is also information that I’ve never placed on the internet; you can see that I passed my Grade 1 Ballet exam when I was in Year 2, not exactly scandalous and it won’t stop me from getting a job but it just shows that we have little control of what is written about us online. Continue reading →

Topic 2: Multiple Online Identities

Prior to technological determinism and globalisation, the Internet was a place where your identity could remain unattached from real life, leading to online personas being formed (Krotoski, 2012). However, in the real world, there are only a handful of situations where it is useful/desirable to be anonymous, apart from anti-social or criminal behavior such as bullying and fraud (Vronay, 2014). Continue reading →