This is Me Digital Identity and Reputation on the Internet

This is MeDigital Identity and Reputation on the Internet
Professor Shirley Williams
University of Reading, UK

Rugby and Reputation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60892750@N00/4181066513/sizes/o/in/set-72157594271646013/
rugby www.rugby-pioneers.com

Identity and Performance
“...all human identities are by definition social identities. Identifying ourselves or others is a matter of meaning, and meaning always involves interaction: agreement and disagreement, convention and innovation, communication and negotiation.” Jenkins, 2004
“…using the term ‘performance’ to refer to all the activity of an individual which occurs during a period …before a particular set of observers…” Goffman, 1959

Digital Identity
We use the term "digital identity" (DI) to describe the persona an individual presents across all the digital spaces that he/she is represented in (performances in Digital Places)
Reputation/Trust are other people’s interpretation of this DI.

Aims
Enabling individuals to recognise the nature of their DI.
Empowering them to increase their control of their DI
Understanding the employer's perspective on DI.

History of the Projects

Our Methodology
Observe
Talk
Develop learning material
Trial
Refine

Activities

Which would you open?
If you were an employer with hundreds of enquiries about a single opportunity and had mail from the following email accounts:
ireallydontcare
thirstyferret
fluffypinkbunnyknickers
heavymetalrockfan

Have you ever Googled yourself?
Volunteer?

Findings
Material that the participant had posted themselves and forgotten;
Material posted by other people that the participant was unaware of.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spine/2076729686/

Our Outputs
Website
http://reading.ac.uk/thisisme
Workbook
Games
Leaflets

By-products
Use by other universities
Re-purposed by Nancy White for NPO/NGO Folks
Arabic translation

Material for Schools
PGCE Trainee Teachers
IT student project

Acknowledgements
The This is Me Project was originally funded by Eduserv; now funded by CCMS
Team members include: Pat Parslow, Sarah Fleming, Richard Hussey, David Stanbury, Finbar Mulholland and Sarah Morey
Other contributors are from the University of Reading and beyond

Thank you
You can find me at:
Email:
shirley.williams@reading.ac.uk
Twitter, delicious, Skype:
shirleyearley
Blog:
http://redgloo.sse.reading.ac.uk/ssswills/weblog
Second Life:
Rosie Luna
etc

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