Welcome to week 4! This is the last week of #DigPINS, though we hope, not our last week learning together. Everything you read below are just my thoughts on the topics / questions that were brought up, so I wrote this as a blog post …
Category: Identity
Week 1: Modality and Public Identity
Bonnie Stewart’s “In Praise of Living in Public” was the first and most impactful thing I read for this week’s topic. I enjoyed her offhand style and didn’t feel intimidated by her vast depth and breadth of knowledge, an ocean compared to my kiddie pool. …
The mute button
How I look and sound on video calls has become a more important part of my professional digital identity recently amidst the current pandemic. A large portion of my job involves meeting with faculty and staff at the college, helping out with or facilitating different …
Context Collapse and Reintegrating with the Matrix…
Like others have mentioned, this idea of “context collapse” was interesting to me and I think one of the reasons I’ve shied from my online presence these last few years. I used to blog all the time and, as far as I can recall, it’s …
Multiple Identities Take Work!
In considering Digital Identity and mapping out how I interact in digital spaces, I realize I have multiple spaces that cross over and overlap. I comment on Reddit, post to Instagram, on Facebook I create invites to exhibitions and have pics of my garden and …
Being Comfortable Online
After creating my V&R map I noticed that I reside mostly on the visitor side of the internet. Like others, I sometimes hesitate to share things online. However, I think this reluctance is subconscious, at least in the case of personal postings. On personal platforms …
Digital Identity
The readings this week and our discussion helped me to see that I have a bit of work to do in figuring out, defining, and establishing a digital identity. My participation in social media is very limited. Yes, I am on twitter, facebook, and on …
Thoughts on Digital Identity
The readings and exercise this week were really helpful. Bonnie Stewart’s post really hit home when she talked about moribund blogs, because I have one! Regarding blogs and identity, Stewart notes, “You have to cobble that self together from the nearly infinite contexts and selves …
Is there anybody out there, just nod if you can hear me!
It seems that there are so many venues to communicate in and on, but hard to capture the attention of many people consistently. I have a presence online, but doubt anyone consistently looks at it. I have found that I engage more readily with social …
Social Identity Approach in a Digital World
A prominent idea in social psychology is the social identity approach, which suggests that we all have different identities depending on the situation we’re in. Although there are clearly through lines through identities, to a certain extent these identities differ in terms of affect, behaviors, …
