Friday, 6 February 2009

Week 3 Topic 2 - Yes That One!

I only want to keep this one sort and rise a couple of key points when expressing ourselves online.

To Show Or Not To Show Our Identities?! - As the are showing our identities in the first place on these blogs/social networking sites, we should be at liberty to portray ourselves as we want. I mean there isn't exactly a law saying we have to be exact in our describtions. If I was a ballet dancer (this is an example by the way!), i can choose whether i want to share that with everyone.

Full Names? - Should we have to show our full names? No. I don't think anyone does as in general we prefer our nick names. It keeps the whole experience more casual than making it look very formal and business like. There sites are here for our enjoyment and entertainment. Even on this very blog I've put myself down as Drewseph instead of Andrew John Oliver as it's more social and easier to remember!
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  1. cara88b6 February 2009 at 22:26

    Yes I agree, screen-names have been created through the discourse of online communication in a way that people don't have to share their identity. As I've mentioned in one of my blogs, we don't walk around with name badges on all the time in 'meatspace' do we?

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  2. tomcarterisconfused6 February 2009 at 22:36

    RINCY

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  3. DaveK10 February 2009 at 08:23

    In response to cara, I agree about the 'name badges' thing, but isn't it much harder to bring ourselves to 'lie' about our name & details IRL? What does that suggest about 'being' online -how we 'inhabit' cyberspace? What have we invested in being 'different' online? And how might that shade into offline relationships (and vice-versa) do you think?

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  4. Anonymous12 February 2009 at 12:42

    I think it depends on what medium we're talking about in the first place, if you're signing up to a forum then surely we feel obliged to use our real identity anyway because of the nature of the site, but when we sign up to something like World of Warcraft or Guild Wars, we're almost forced into a different identity entirely (nobody can be an elf or an orc in real life, right?) but we still see aspects of peoples' real lives shining through, when they ask eachother where they're from in the real world and such!

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