Digital Identity

Gendered risks and opportunities? Exploring teen girls’ digital sexual identity in postfeminist media contexts

by Jessica Ringrose

Euskal identitatearen garapena online sare sozialen bidez: gazteen praktika sozialak Facebooken

by Koldo D. Bizkarguenaga

(Forthcoming 2012) Gogoa Aldizkaria

Egungo euskal gizarte postmodernoan emandako dinamikotasun eta dikotomien gainditzeak, instituzioek jasandako indar... more Egungo euskal gizarte postmodernoan emandako dinamikotasun eta dikotomien gainditzeak, instituzioek jasandako indar galtzeak eta subjektu erreflexiboaren ‘enpoderamenduak’, besteak beste, identitate nazionala aztertzeko, ulertzeko, eta garatzeko logika, moduak, espazioak, tresnak eta erreferente kulturalak transformatu ditu. Artikulu honen bidez, elementu horiek euskal identitatearen kasura mugatuz, hauek identifikatu eta aztertzeaz gain, soziologikoki hau ikertzerako orduan egin beharreko ikergaldera birpentsatu nahi da euskalduntasuna irudikatzeko moduak eta euskal kolektibotasuna argitu nahi direlarik.

Emerging Social Norms in the UK and Japan on Privacy and Revelation in SNS

by Pat Parslow

Andrew A. Adams, Kiyoshi Murata, Yohko Orito and Pat Parslow
Language: English

Semi-structured interviews with university students in the UK and Japan, undertaken in 2009 and 2010, are analysed... more Semi-structured interviews with university students in the UK and Japan, undertaken in 2009 and 2010, are analysed with respect to the revealed attitudes to privacy, self-revelation and revelation by/of others on SNS.

A Comparison of Identity Merge Algorithms for Software Repositories

by Tom Mens

Copyright © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Authors: Mathieu Goeminne, Tom Mens. Preprint of article to be published in Science of Computer Programming journal, 2012.

DOI:10.1016/j.scico.2011.11.004

Software repository mining research extracts and analyses data originating from multiple software repositories to... more Software repository mining research extracts and analyses data originating from multiple software repositories to understand the historical development of soft- ware systems, and to propose better ways to evolve such systems in the future. Of particular interest is the study of the activities and interactions between the persons involved in the software development process. The main challenge with such studies lies in the ability to determine the identities (e.g., logins or e-mail accounts) in software repositories that represent the same physical person. To achieve this, different identity merge algorithms have been proposed in the past. This article provides an objective comparison of identity merge algorithms, in- cluding some improvements over existing algorithms. The results are validated on a selection of large ongoing open source software projects.

Investigative Management and Consumer Research on the Internet

by Peter Lugosi

A final version of this paper will be published as Lugosi, P., Janta, H. and Watson, P. (2012) Investigative Management and Consumer Research on the Internet. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management Vol. 24, No. 6. Please consult the final published version if citing.

This paper introduces the notion of Investigative Research on the Internet (IRI) and conceptualises its processes... more This paper introduces the notion of Investigative Research on the Internet (IRI) and conceptualises its processes through the principle of streaming. It discusses the similarities and differences between IRI and netnography and considers various aspects of the IRI process, including site selection, sampling, data collection and analysis. It is argued that streaming can help to understand the processes involved in conducting netnographic research. Moreover, it is suggested that streaming is a more appropriate way to conceptualise some internet-based studies that do not conform to netnographic or ethnographic ideals. Three international empirical cases are used to illustrate the application of IRI and streaming in research on international workers, consumer cultures and on emerging business phenomena.

To be or not to be, the importance of Digital Identity in the networked society

by Ricardo Torres Kompen

Co-authored with Cristina Costa

The emergence of the web has had a deep impact at different levels of our society, changing the way people connect,... more The emergence of the web has had a deep impact at different levels of our society, changing the way people connect, interact, share information, learn and work. In the current knowledge economy, participatory media seems to play an important part in everyday interactions. The term “digital identity” is becoming part of both our lexicon and our lives.
This paper explores some of the aspects regarding approaches and practices of educators, using web technologies to foster their digital identity within their networks and, at the same time, developing a social presence to complement their professional and academic profiles. In fact, we think it is imperative to discuss the relationship between our social presence and our professional life, as online the two are often intertwined.
We present the issues the web poses through dichotomies: open or closed, genuine or fake, single or multiple. We also comment on different approaches to these dichotomies through examples extracted from recent projects, drawing from user’s experiences in building their digital identities.
This paper looks at the importance of digital identity in the current networked society, by reviewing the contemporaneous scenario of the participatory web, raising a set of questions about the advantages and implication of consciously developing one’s digital identity, thus opening the discussion regarding openness, uniqueness and integrity in connection with one’s digital identity.
This paper is also a reflection of thinking and practice in progress, drawing from examples and real-life situations observed in a diversity of projects.
The issue could be reduced, perhaps, to whether one consciously becomes a part of the digital world or not, and how that participation is managed. It is up to us to manage it wisely, and guide knowledge workers in their journey to create theirs.

Syncretic Post-Biological Digital Identity: Hybridizing Mixed Reality Data Transfer Systems

by Raphael Grasset

Julian Stadon, Raphael Grasset
15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT'11), 2011.

Self 2.0: Lost in Bio-Technological Environments

by Jelena Guga

Online interactions have evolved rapidly from the advent of the Internet as mass communication medium towards 21st... more Online interactions have evolved rapidly from the advent of the Internet as mass communication medium towards 21st century. What we have witnessed in such a short time is a radical change in the ways we perceive ourselves, the ways we communicate to each other, and cultivate new kinds of relationships – from Web 1.0 platforms where we experienced more freedom than ever in the history of humanity to experiment and play with all kinds of identities and express diversity of the self, to Web 2.0 platforms which include and encourage new ways to creating, positioning and defining social identity that coincide with and reflect the aspects of what we are offline. Reinventing the absolute self on Web 2.0 social networks occurs in a new dimension that embodies both real and virtual realms. Unlike textually based interactions of Web 1.0, the interactions today take place in a multimedia environment and include affective bodily reactions in the process of reinvention of self online. Moreover, the interactions brought about by social networking have opened a new chapter on the issues of body and embodiment by reinserting the body as a variable in the equation of self construction.

Structuring Feeling: Web 2.0, online ranking and rating and the digital 'reputation' economy

by Alison Hearn

I am an ID: Non/Persisting our sociotechnical digital identities

by Jed Brubaker

M.A. Thesis from Georgetown's program in Communication, Culture and Technology

Our online identities are collaborations between user behavior and technology. Increasingly, computers speak on our... more Our online identities are collaborations between user behavior and technology. Increasingly, computers speak on our behalf, representing our identities in configurations that are shaped by the technological systems through which they are communicated. This sociotechnical relationship is particularly evident in the user profiles seen on social network sites. Given the rise of technologies that utilize identity, this thesis examines the role of persistence by considering the ways in which users and technology collaborate in the creation of digital identities, the ways in which technology structures and stores these identities, and the social behaviors these identities enable.

The concept of identity persistence is explored through two case studies: persistent identities on the popular social network site Facebook, and non-persistent or “single-use identities” seen on craigslist Missed Connections, an online equivalent to “I saw you” personal ads. Facebook allows users to capture and store personal and interpersonal information that can then be reused across social activities and system features. This universal profile however, results in a singular self-presentation that must represent the user across the various social networks to which his Facebook profile is exposed. Users on craigslist engage in much of the same behavior, but without technology to structure and maintain their identities. Instead users produce “single-use identities” for each post by resourcing interpretive resources from outside of the craigslist system.

This thesis concludes with a consideration of digital identities and identity persistence as a part of our larger social and institutional infrastructures. Software such as Facebook is built around essentialized conceptions of identity that, once stored as a set of categories and classifications in a database, can become rigid and unusable. Approaching identities from the perspective of the work they perform, I argue for a reexamination of digital identity as a functional unit of larger infrastructures, and articulate some of the potential challenges when storing something as dynamic as identity.

Which Skills for Culture in a Globalised and Digitised World?

by Colin Mercer

Identity based architecture for secure communication in future internet

by Pedro Martinez-Julia

Secure identity-to-identity communications over Content-Centric Networking

by Pedro Martinez-Julia

A Novel Architecture to Achieve Security and Mobility in Coalition Networks

by Pedro Martinez-Julia

Moving On/Keeping Pace: Youth's Literate Identities and Multimodal Digital Texts

by Donna Alvermann

Alvermann, D. E. ( 2011).  Moving on, keeping pace: Youth’s literate identities and multimodal digital texts. In S. Abrams & J. Rowsell (Eds.), Rethinking identity and literacy education in the 21st century. National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook, 110(1), 109-128.

Although research on young people's online literate identities has implications for classroom practice, this... more Although research on young people's online literate identities has implications for classroom practice, this information remains largely untapped by teachers, school library/media specialists, and literacy teacher educators. Why is this so? Just as importantly, what does this literature have to offer? To address these two questions, I engaged in an interpretive analysis of recent research that suggests the following: (a) the work of students who self-identify as users and producers of multimodal digital texts is rarely visible to their teachers; (b) institutional contexts for secondary schooling and literacy teacher education may wittingly or unwittingly contribute to this invisibility; and (c) in spite of this invisibility, classroom teachers, school library/media specialists, and teacher educators are increasingly becoming aware of the instructional implications of young people's uses of multimodal digital texts to construct their online literate identities.

A strange in the mirror? Students perceptions about their digital identity

by Linda Castañeda

Castañeda, L. & Camacho, M. (2011). A strange in the mirror? Students perceptions about their digital identity. In T. Bastiaens & M. Ebner (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2011 (pp. 3275-3280). Chesapeake, VA: AACE

Taking as departing point the important role that technologies have as mediators of identities and the assumption that... more Taking as departing point the important role that technologies have as mediators of identities and the assumption that 'digital identity' refers to the aspect of digital technology that is concerned with the mediation of people's experience of their own identity and the identity shaped by others, we decided to explore come of the implications that underlie in the perception of student’s digital identity in the higher education context. As it focuses attention on critical questions about personal development and social relationships, knowing about the way in which identity is shaped will lead us to a better understanding of the nature of our students’social and cultural experiences and will throw some light in the way in which we –as educators- can be of help in their learning process. The aim of this study, then, is to detect the perceptions that our students have about their digital identity regarding it as a sum of both what they say, and what others say about them.

Loisy, C. & Mailles-Viard Metz, S. (2011). Enjeux de l’orientation et fonctions du portfolio pour la construction de l’identité numérique et l’orientation dans les enseignements disciplinaires. Actes du colloque OUFOREP, Outils pour la formation, l’éducation et la prévention. Nantes, 06-07 juin 2011.

by Catherine Loisy

L’édition numérique des actes du colloque est prévue pour décembre 2011.

La recherche INO, Identité Numérique et Orientation, articule une réflexion sur l’identité numérique, désignant les... more La recherche INO, Identité Numérique et Orientation, articule une réflexion sur l’identité numérique, désignant les représentations (contributions et traces d’activité) d’une personne présentes dans les systèmes d’informations et sur l'orientation active des élèves de l’enseignement secondaire. Cet article interroge les enjeux du projet et l’articulation des fonctions d’un portfolio avec ces enjeux. Ce cadre permet d'interroger les données recueillies lors de la recherche dans des classes de lycée.

Loisy, C., Bénech, P. & Mailles-Viard Metz, S. (2010). E-portfolio d’orientation : de nouvelles compétences pour les enseignants ? Actes du congrès international AREF 2011.

by Catherine Loisy

identité numérique, orientation des élèves, e-portfolio, compétences des enseignants

Écrit dans le cadre de la recherche INO (Identité Numérique et Orientation) qui vise à faire construire des scénarios... more Écrit dans le cadre de la recherche INO (Identité Numérique et Orientation) qui vise à faire construire des scénarios sur l'identité numérique et l'orientation à destination des élèves du secondaire, cet article interroge les compétences construites par les enseignants qui participent au projet et les processus de professionnalisation à l'œuvre. Les productions et les discours des participants sont analysés en référence à une définition de la compétence comme processus dynamique impliquant la réorganisation des rapports à la situation, à soi-même et à autrui. Les résultats montrent que dans les classes de lycée, les enseignantes ont vraiment mis en place un accompagnement du processus de construction des compétences des élèves avec des activités réflexives et collaboratives. Au collège, les résultats sont moins évidents mais ceci peut s'expliquer par l'âge et les motivations des élèves.

E-portfolios and Digital Identity: Some issues for discussion

by mhairi mcalpine

Internet et identité virtuelle des personnes

by Philippe Mouron

Revue de la recherche juridique - Droit prospectif, n° 124, 2008/4, pp. 2409-2438

Analyse de la notion d'identité virtuelle dans le droit - Protection des données personnelles et des identifiants -... more Analyse de la notion d'identité virtuelle dans le droit - Protection des données personnelles et des identifiants - Respect de la vie privée et familiale - Droit et nom et usurpation d'identité sur Internet - Statut de l'avatar de jeu vidéo