LESSON 2 - DIGITAL SELF

• Total number of active social media users is 76 million, which is 71% of the total population
• Total number of active social media users accessing via mobile devices is 72 million, which is 67% of the total population
• Digital identity


  • Symbolic markers that represent who the person is offline - hair, clothes, body
  • Internet disembodiment - allowing people to adopt identities independent of the bodies and markers it contains
• Eye contact and conversation skills suffer due to online interaction
• Others on the internet constitute a distinctive "looking glass" that produces a digital self that differs from the self formed offline
• Abuse of technology always leads to negative consequences but it should not be blamed at all
• Be careful on what to text and post online that might cause harm to others and self as well
• Identity is made up of both personal identity and social identity but social identity is usually based on group affiliation
• In the modern era, identity is defined as fixed, stable, and unitary
• Digital Self

  • new version of self formed with this influx of digital technology.
  • known as "extended self"
• Digital Literacy

  • those capabilities possessed by individuals who are living, learning and working in a digital society.
• Online Disinhibition

  • lack of restraint one feels when communicating online in comparison to in-person.
• Benign Disinhibition

  • individual with low self-esteem are more comfortable online
  • using the internet to find satisfying relationships for emotional support.
• Toxic Disinhibition

  • use of rude languages, harsh criticism, anger, hatred, and even threats online.
  • could be cyberbullying or cyber harassment.
• Cyber Bullying

  • bullying using an electronic technology.
• Cyber Harassment

  • use of ICT to harass, control, manipulate or habitually disparage a child, adult, business group without a direct or implied threat or physical harm.
• Digital Identity

  • anything refers to anything that describes a persona of an individual present across all digital spaces that he/she is represented in.
• Symbolic Markers

  • who the person is offline.
• Internet Disembodiment

  • allowing people to adopt identities independent of the bodies and markers it contains.
• USER ID

  • allows a person to associate a persistent ID to a single user with that user's engagement in date from one or more sessions initiated from one or more devices.
• USERNAME

  • also called "log in name"
• Dissociative Anonymity

  • anonymous
• Self-Presentation

  • strategies that people adopt to shape others view of them.
• Self-promotion


  showing to other that she is competent
• Ingratiation

  • done to be liked be others
• Exemplification


  achieve worth from others
• Intimidation

  • the person using this tries to appear dangerous
• Supplication


  would appear helpless
• others on the internet


  constitute a distinctive looking glass that produces a digital self that differs from self offline
• Personal Boundaries


  set of guideliness that a person creates to identify reasonable ways for people behave towards them
• Asynchronicity


  not having to cope with someone's immediate reaction disinhibits people
• Public Mode


  the post of a person may be treated as an open book
• Private Mode


  used for security putposes
• Invisibility


  use to misinterpret oneself
• modern era identity

  fixed, stable, unitary
• post-modern world identity

  fluid, multiple, socially constructed