George Chiverton

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Reflecting back on the topic of multiple personalities is difficult for me as although I think I have a solid grip of the topic area, the practical difficulties I’ve had this week have been very frustrating. The topic of multiple online personalities to me first broke down to two basic identities: a profile with a real name (i.e. Facebook) or being online and anonymous. This could be either with a pseudonym (i.e. a screen name on Reddit) or without any login and hence total anonymity. Continue reading →

Reflecting back on the topic of multiple personalities is difficult for me as although I think I have a solid grip of the topic area, the practical difficulties I’ve had this week have been very frustrating. The topic of multiple online personalities to me first broke down to two basic identities: a profile with a real name (i.e. Facebook) or being online and anonymous. This could be either with a pseudonym (i.e. a screen name on Reddit) or without any login and hence total anonymity. Continue reading →

When wrestling with the topic of online identity the question that debates most often revolve around is whether a policy of anonymity is preferable to online identification. As a politics student this question is one which has been central to studies around revolution, accountability and the protection of children. Personally I err on the side of multiple web personalities as this is allows for the best of anonymity while protecting against the worst. Continue reading →

The titles ‘digital visitors’ and ‘digital residents’ are the evolutionary product of the previously contested titles of ‘digital natives’ and ‘digital immigrants’ devised by Prensky (2001). The previous concepts identified those who had been born into a technologically advanced society as natives who held a monopoly over the ability to utilise the web. Continue reading →

Woops! Lets try that again… This is a proper representation of what your blogs should be looking like. Ensure you place a tag on your blogs of ‘UOSM2008′ and place them into the category ‘Topic 1′ (or whatever topic that happens to be) and everything should be golden. Continue reading →