technologyand communityas identity
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Presentation to JISC/Emerge on relational identityTRANSCRIPT
Technology and Community as Identity
George SiemensEmerge: Online Communities and Online
IdentitiesApril 23, 2008
1. What is identity?2. Identity formation3. The Distributed Self4. Identity Trails5. Identity in associations6. Who is paying attention?7. Concerns
Who are we?
Identity considerations
Technological
Relational
Technical details of identity
Digital identity management: set of processes, tools and social contracts surrounding the creation, maintenance and termination of digital identity”
Pato, 2003
Terms
IdentityAttributes– Persistent– Temporary
Authentication (proof of attribute)Access
Camp, 2004
Most of us are more concerned about relational identity rather than digital identity management
Formal identity: when we interact with systems (passport)
Informal identity: how we relate to individuals (communal)
What do we wish to do with “identity”?
1. What is identity?2. Identity formation3. The Distributed Self4. Identity Trails5. Identity in associations6. Who is paying attention?7. Concerns
Identity Formation, pre-Internet
Identity post-internet
Wellman: networked individualism
Three levels of information
Direct declarationIndirect: trails of interaction
Through devices (GPS, mobile)
What you say– Profile– Expression (blog)
What others say– Direct comments– Voting/rating
What you do– Trail of identity
1. What is identity?2. Identity formation3. The Distributed Self4. Identity Trails5. Identity in associations6. Who is paying attention?7. Concerns
As technology becomes distributed...
...our interactions
...our content
...our identity trails
...our identity
Identity trails
Self-declared
Created as a consequence of actions
How does “who we are” influence our relation to others?
1. What is identity?2. Identity formation3. The Distributed Self4. Identity Trails5. Identity in associations6. Who is paying attention?7. Concerns
Associative trails between information
Associative trails between people
Trails in community
Our status
Distributed cognition
Situated learning
Identity distributed
1. What is identity?2. Identity formation3. The Distributed Self4. Identity Trails5. Identity in associations6. Who is paying attention?7. Concerns
Identity as function of interactions
Identity tied to community
Identity is in the pieces, pulled together
Our involvement is our identity
1. What is identity?2. Identity formation3. The Distributed Self4. Identity Trails5. Identity in associations6. Who is paying attention?7. Concerns
Ratings, reviews, and reputations
1. What is identity?2. Identity formation3. The Distributed Self4. Identity Trails5. Identity in associations6. Who is paying attention?7. Concerns
Living in glass houses
Concerns
Future implications
Privacy
Putting the pieces together
Learner awareness of identity formation
Impact of “non-existence”
Correcting false information
Literacy with identity
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