How WE Create I

How WE create I
H+ Summit * June 2010
Heather Schlegel * heathervescent

My Interest
We don’t pro-actively create identities
Structures encourage behaviors
Exploration of my personal brand
June 2010 | Humanity Plus
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The Mass Age
Marshall McLuhan
Douglas Hofstadter
Jaron Lanier
NY Times
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How I think about this
The way we create, experience and respond to technology
Value-sets: And the underlying values encoded in a system
June 2010 | Humanity PlusPhoto Credit: Machine Project
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Who are you?
Always the same person?
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I’m not.

Fragmented (Online) Identities
Anonymity
Pseudonyms
When your Identity takes on a life of it’s own?
Success as stagnation
Pigeon-holed
Strange Loops: Living in another’s mind
June 2010 | Humanity PlusPhoto Credit: Viss
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Extending our Identities
Identify Externally
Brands, Cars, Devices, Objects
Groups: Institutions, Communities, Movements
Music
Multiple Identities
Private
Anonymous
Alternates: Avatars, Game Role-playing
Physical modifications
Plastic surgery
Tattooing, Beauty enhancements
Cognitive enhancers
Attention, focus, “energy”
Research, Training and Drugs
Photo Credit: Brazil
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The Doors of Expression
Second Life
Gaming Worlds
Blogging, Twitter & MySpace
Personal Brands
Facebook ID Lockdown
ID Theft: Single White Female
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Photo Credit: EvonneAmoration

Do we get lost? (I get lost)
Avatars: Embodiment = Immersion
Caught in streams of influence
The Audience Effect
Participation & Motivation
Privacy
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Photo Credit: EvonneAmoration
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Self-Value
What do we end up valuing?
What types of identities are valued?
How does one value self?
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Ownership of our Souls
Who owns your identity?
Projected
Perception
Remembered
Which parts are (truly) ours?
Betrayal
“I don’t even see you, I see the mental image of you in my mind.”
“I have conversations with the person you are in my mind.”
June 2010 | Humanity PlusPhoto Credit: EvonneAmoration
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The Truth is Easier
Real time life tracking & Public Diaries
Blogging (& Life Streaming)
Twitter
Flickr
Physically
23 & me
Zeo
Collective History
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And the point…
Identity is not created in a vacuum
Iterative, Evolves
The medium is the mæssage is the distraction.
In the end, I may create WE
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Finally: Who are you?
I – I hardly know, sir,
just at present –at least
I know who I was when
I got up this morning,
but I think I must have
been changed several
times since then.
- Lewis Carroll m
Photo Credit: Jeff Christiansen
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Thank You
Heather Schlegel
aka heathervescent, The Purple Tornado
puissant@heathervescent.com
www.heathervescent.com
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