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Week 2

Contents

[edit] Video

Online Identity by Staticfuror

[edit] Week 2 Goals

  • Notes, Facebook group, new introductions
  • Context and takeaways
  • "You are who you pretend to be" - Identity and context (Turkle/boyd)
  • Stranger danger and the arts of disclosure (Pew Study)

[edit] Context and takeaways

Pew: Good baseline OSN statistics.

Turkle: The "fluidity" of identity; does technology liberate (rather than constrain) the exploration of identity?

boyd: Properties of an a networked publics, the intervening role of authorities in the search for "place".

[edit] "You are who you pretend to be" - Identity and context (Turkle/boyd)

Turkle and the culture of simulation - Multiple selves - the unary vs. multiple self - fluidity of identity - How is social space simulated? - What are the meta-structures that make simulated spaces different?

Turkle's claims:

  • We've become accustomed to opaque technology (we're no longer interacting with machines, per se)
  • We've learned to take things as interface value (an artifact of computing culture only?)
  • We've used our relationships with technology to inflect on the person
  • We've sought out the "subjective computer" (we seek the intervention of computer in our lives)

As science attempts to reveal a programmed self, Turkle sees the computer as a device that allows, even encourages, identity play.

Boyd's claims:

The four properties of networked public:

  • Persistence
  • Searchability
  • Replicability
  • Invisible audiences

Notions to explore:

  • The non-participants
  • SNS cleavages along cultural and linguistic lines
  • The role of visual identity formation (searching out custom codes) in socialization
  • The role of understanding cues (and subtext) in acculturation, socialization and identity formation
  • Audience: offline networks
  • Parental interventions - barriers to mobility, the search for place; mirror networks - online access becomes the new social realm for teenagers.

Q. The formulation of a digital body; how is it constrained by existing social norms? (Paul)

Q. Is Myspace an escape? (Paul)

Q. Which identity is more real - should we delineate between our selves (Paul/Allison/Caitlin)

Q. Lonelygirl15 - an identity simulation, perceived as real (Darin/Marian)

Q. Is context the invisible audience (Sean) or do cleavages in OSN population lead to the emergence of the imagined community (Fred)

Q. Is lurking voyeurism? (Sean) The social voyeur (Hannah) Calvert's "mediated voyeurism"

The consumption of revealing images of and information about others’ 
apparently real and unguarded lives, often yet not always for purposes 
of entertainment but frequently at the expense of privacy and discourse, 
through the means of mass media and Internet

Q. Do we care if our friendships are "real" - the role of outcomes in identity formation and use (Sheryl)

Q. Modeling peers (Hannah)

Q. Identity play as a natural state of maturity (Jennifer)

Q. Are youth aware of the persistent aspects of networked publics when they produce online (Jennifer)

Q. How should we contextualize the digital body? i.e. boyd's college admission example (Annie)

Q. Power and agency - when the child becomes the expert what happens? (Marian/Lindsey)

Q. How are traditional structures of power being represented or recreated online? (Hill)

Q. Self-regulation and sousveillance (Hill)

Q. How will our views on privacy change over time? (Lisa)

Q. How new is our acceptance of "interface culture" (Alison)

Q. Does the interaction place matter in the development of relationships? (Lynn)

Q. Is Myspace like a MUD - do different OSN's have different identity characteristics and affordances (Jessica)

Q. While our place changes (OSN to OSN, etc), the tasks we do in them stay the same (Monte)

[edit] Stranger danger and the arts of disclosure (Pew Study)

Notes:

  • 32% of teens contacted by strangers
  • Gender differences in behavior
  • Parent surveillance (53% surveil, 45% record)
  • Active online = active offline
  • Homophily and group cohesion (reinforcement of social structures)
  • Most teens not worries about privacy, though teens are aware of the context (56% post fake info)
  • 40% of teens discoverable
  • 7% of teens scared by an online experiece

[edit] Presentations

  • Hill T.

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