My research passion is about college students and how social media and technology impacts the developmental process. Unfortunately, I’ve found a lot of the discourse in student affairs around this subject to be lacking. When you attend a conference session or read a thought piece centered around this topic, they often focus on marketing, technological tools, and their use, rather than what’s occurring at a more theoretical or fundamental level. If articles and sessions do focus on student development, it is often on the byproducts of a larger developmental process rather than on how technology may be changing the process itself or our understanding of the process. I believe that faulty assumptions are baked into this framework that will increasingly be hard to maintain as we learn more about social media and technology and what it reveals about our selves. Presented at the 2014 ACPA National Convention http://www.paulgordonbrown.com http://www.myacpa.org The original slides in all of their glory... as well as more information... can be found here... http://paulgordonbrown.com/2014/04/29/video-posted-of-my-pechakucha-on-the-main-stage-at-acpa14/

1. Digital Identity
Identity At All
isn’t about
@paulgordonbrown

2. Digital Identity
Identity At All
isn’t about
@paulgordonbrown
A SEPARATE

3. digital identity
@paulgordonbrown

4. “social media have become so
engaging for young people that a
new dimension of personal
identity development has evolved.
Digital identity is the composite
of images that individuals present,
share, and promote for themselves
in the digital domain.”
(Dalton & Crosby, 2013; Stoller 2012)@paulgordonbrown

5. 70
Digital Physical
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6. (Kasch, 2011)@paulgordonbrown
narrative/stage
vector
continuum

7. “The major
achievement of
normal development
was a firm and fixed
‘sense of identity’”
-Gergen
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8. external
internal
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9. @paulgordonbrown

10. time-shifting place-shifting task-switching relationship-crossing
@paulgordonbrown

11. We no longer exist
as playwrights or
actors but as
terminals of
multiple networks.
-Baudrillard
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12. Consumer preferences in wearables.
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13. “Why should our
bodies end at the
skin or include at
best other beings
encapsulated by
skin” - Haraway
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14. hybrid
fusion
holism

15. @paulgordonbrown
in here out there

16. @paulgordonbrown

17. “social media have become so
engaging for young people that a
new dimension understanding of
personal identity development has
evolved is revealed. Digital
“identity” is the composite of
images that individuals present,
share, and promote for themselves
in the our tenuous selves across
digital and physical domains.”
(Dalton & Crosby, 2013; Stoller 2012)

18. it’s not useful
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“digital identity development”
may be flawed
but that doesn’t mean

19. not an end point
@paulgordonbrown
“digital identity development”
is a bridge
along the way

20. postdigitalidentitydevelopment.com
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