Uts

• Online identity


  The totality of a person's appearance, expression, behavior and interaction within the digital platform, particularly the INTERNET
• Online identity


  • Often created to engage in virtual communities found in various websites and social networking sites
• Digital self


  The self in the digital and virtual world
• The world is at your fingertips
• We live in highly mediated times
• Expressions of identity nowadays involve layers of make-believe selves
• Many people are used to maintaining social media accounts and presenting themselves in a particular manner to a much bigger audience
• People nowadays are more interconnected than at any point in history
• With the digital revolution in full swing, the challenge to maintain a coherent sense of identity is prominent
• Digital world


  Presents a different reality as compared to the actual physical reality that people usually live in
• Digital realities


  Interactions occur behind the screen so documenting the daily life and experiences through posting photos and videos, sharing interests and life events as they happen now characterize the new norm
• Self-presentation


  Enables the individual to control other people's perception to oneself, thereby, reinforcing the creation of online identities
• Ridley and Suler (2004): 'Refer to this extensive online sharing as "disinhibition effect" where people feel so much freedom to express their "true selves" without the fear of being seen or judged'
• Online self expression


  Through vlogs, photos or even video-sharing can indeed be therapeutic for some individual online users because it provides an opportunity for self-analysis and reflection
• Virtual romance


  Speeds through moments and cuts to the chase
• Catfishing


  The act of luring someone into a (largely virtual) relationship with the use of online alter-egos
• Abstraction


  The non-physical properties one gets to try and interact with when consuming technology
• Manifestations of abstraction


  • Real-Life Reality
  • Simulation
  • Augmented Reality
  • Virtual Reality
  • Hyperreality
• Identity


  Interrelated with performativity
• Technology provides new venues for forging identities and personhoods
• Our lives online revolve around performance
• Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959)

  Erving Goffman's landmark book which analogizes the nuances of social interaction with those of the theater
• Socialization


  Heavily role-oriented, with individuals being assigned specific ones to portray
• Regions of social interaction

  • Front stage
  • Back stage
  • Off-stage
• Impression management


  A process wherein each attempts to manufacture and present one's self positively to avoid embarrassment
• Elements of dramaturgical self

  • Performance
  • Setting
  • Appearance
  • Manner
  • Front
• Online communication and the number of information available on the internet enable individual users to engage in sexual self-exploration
• Online behavior may result to online sexual solicitation and even harassment because no one knows who you really are
• Caution must be exercised at all times, refrain from disclosing too much about yourself online such as sensitive topics because once a personal information is shared online, it can easily fall into the wrong hands
• Online identity


  The totality of a person's appearance, expression, behavior and interaction within the digital platform, particularly the INTERNET
• Online identity


  • Often created to engage in virtual communities found in various websites and social networking sites
• Digital self


  The self in the digital and virtual world
• The world is at your fingertips
• We live in highly mediated times
• Expressions of identity nowadays involve layers of make-believe selves
• Many people are used to maintaining social media accounts and presenting themselves in a particular manner to a much bigger audience
• People nowadays are more interconnected than at any point in history
• With the digital revolution in full swing, the challenge to maintain a coherent sense of identity is prominent
• Digital world


  Presents a different reality as compared to the actual physical reality that people usually live in
• Digital realities


  Interactions occur behind the screen so documenting the daily life and experiences through posting photos and videos, sharing interests and life events as they happen now characterize the new norm