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

Ourselves

Always Multiple
http://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 medium
amplifies & 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.
@bonstewart
http://theory.cribchronicles.com