Who Are We When We're Online? Self in a Digital Medium

Who are We when Were Online? How Self Works in a Digital Medium

Ourselves

Always Multiplehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/thelotuscarroll/6842167375/

Always Facets

The Infinite Selves of the Blank Screen http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamison/3669034513/

...So I turned myself to face me http://www.flickr.com/photos/thuanygabriela/4754591985/

The digital mediumamplifies & quantifies & networks us like never before http://www.flickr.com/photos/frank_wuestefeld/4535211481/

Why does this matter?

1. We have possibilities like never before.

2. We are vulnerable like never before.

The Digital = a Reputational Space http://www.flickr.com/photos/8113246@N02/7932198032

Digital Selves = Public  Aware of being watched Aware of scale of attention Builds identity by repetition Build ties by visible http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfgangfoto/2755774089/ communications

The Digital = a Social Space http://www.flickr.com/photos/cjnzja/2525350443

Digital Selves = Networked  We Connect  We Cultivate  We Curate  We Control?http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/7153872159/

The Digital = an Economic Space? http://www.flickr.com/photos/8113246@N02/7932198032/

Digital Selves = By the Numbers http://www.flickr.com/photos/rachubarama/4124709187

There are many currencies in social media

Monetization is NOT the divide http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdemory/540976004/

What is?

The kind of citizen we choose to be. http://www.flickr.com/photos/oter/2692986119/

The Digital = Just us, Extended

http://www.flickr.com/photos/areyoumyrik/289116861/Online, we are ourselves, wired together.

Be the self you want to encounter online. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dimasmotion/2964792950

Thank you. @bonstewarthttp://theory.cribchronicles.com

http://theory.cribchronicles.com	3228
http://www.newsblur.com	3
http://g2m1	1
http://ranksit.com	1

Who Are We When We're Online? Self in a Digital Medium

by Bonnie Stewart on Oct 23, 2012

Accessibility

Upload Details

Usage Rights

4 Embeds 3,233

Statistics