To be viewed in conjunction with the NLI 2012 related wiki presentation.

1. Online Professional Identity:
Critically Crafting Your Digital Footprint
Mary Hodder (http://www.flickr.com/photos/maryhodder/123208237/)
Carl A. Young
North Carolina State University
ECI 445 – Fall 2012

2. Who are they? Who are you?
Who am I?

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10. carl_young@ncsu.edu
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11. Other facets of my online identity…

12. but enough about me, on to you...

13. Are you a publizen?
“See Me, Click Me”: Washington Post, 6-23-06

14. Informed Insights
• Student Perspective – more telling than we might think!
“If you’re not on MySpace [ ___ ], you don’t exist.”
- Skyler, 18, to her mom
Source: Danah Boyd (http://www.danah.org/) – Social Media researcher at MS
Research New England and Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for
Internet and Society.
• “Social media use has become so pervasive in the lives of American
teens that having a presence on a social network site is almost
synonymous with being online. Fully 95% of all teens ages 12-17 are now
online and 80% of those online teens are users of social media sites.
Many log on daily to their social network pages and these have become
spaces where much of the social activity of teen life is echoed and
amplified—in both good and bad ways.”
• Source: Lenhart et al. (2011, Nov.). Pew Internet and American Life Report:
Teens, Kindess and Cruelty on Social Network Sites

15. Investigation Activity
Last night, you conducted a brief web investigation of your
partner to see what information you can find about him/her online.
– If needed take a few minutes to search further.
– Next, evaluate the information you find about your partner from these three
perspectives (in other words, take on these personas and respond to what you
find):
a. a friend or colleague; b. a principal or school administrator, or an employer,
or a college admissions officer; c. the parent of one of your students, or your
parents or another relative
– Finally, share reactions and any possible action steps.
Next, on to the issues... (see the wiki!)

16. Q & A on Web Identity
Thank you!
Carl A. Young, Ph.D.
NC State University
carl_young@ncsu.edu
Please see related presentation wiki page at
http://nli2012.wikispaces.com/Critically+Considering+our+Digital+Footprint
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