2. How is the internet changing Identity?
• The internet, social networking sites and
content sharing sites like YouTube are
changing how identity is perceived and
constructed.
• What evidence can you think of that agrees
with this statement?
3. • How can we create an identity online?
• Does this identity change from reality?
4.
5. • “Texting, emailing, posting all of these things
let us present the self as we want to be. We
get to edit, and that means we get to delete,
and that means we get to retouch.”
– Sherry Tuckle, Connected… but Alone
6. YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram
etc…
• Sites like YouTube, Facebook etc… allow us the opportunity
to increasingly MEDIATE our own identity
• By choosing what to post or what to say in our latest status
we chose what version of ourselves we will present to the
online world
• “Whenever there is time to write edit and
delete there is room for performance”
– Sherry Tuckle, Connected… but Alone
8. Identity is changing
• Look at your Facebook profile.
• Do you mediate your own identity at all?
• Look at the posts you have created? What
image of you do we get from each of these?
9. How can this affect the representation
of youth?
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10. New communities
• This new sense of identity and community is both
connecting and isolating at the same time
• We are increasingly connected to the world, but at the
same time increasingly disconnected from reality
• MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing
Games) like WOW (World of Warcraft) are increasing in
size, allowing people to escape into a imagined world
where community and identity are malleable and
easily constructed
11. Authenticity?
• This ability to construct an identity, to be
unseen while communicating increases the
risk for impersonation and fraud
• It creates a sense of anonymity, a false sense
of security
• People post things they would never say in
person, trolls etc…
12. What does this mean?
• Identity is constantly in flux, we are unable to distinguish
between what is authentic and what isn’t. We are
frequently constructing our own identities, presenting a
mediated version of ourselves to the world
• Equally the collective identity of youth and youth culture
can also be affected by this movement to online cultures
• Rather than being controlled and constructed by outside
onlookers, British youth can now take control of their own
representation creating UGC (User Generated Content) to
reflect what they see, feel and experience
13. • This idea was
realised by the
TIME magazine
person of the
year in 2006
14. Opening Statement
• The internet, social networking sites and
content sharing sites like YouTube are
changing how identity is perceived and
constructed.
• Take another look at this statement
• Can you think of any new evidence that
supports this?
15. Exam Question
• Plan your answer to the following question:
• “The media do not construct identity; they
merely reflect it” Discuss.
• Remember to include:
– More than 1 type of text
(TV/Film/Newspaper/Online)
– Past, Present and Future representations
