live slides (thus some are left blank for participants to write in ideas & share content) from the final Collaborate session in #etmooc. an overview of some of my own and others' work on digital identities, particularly for educators. focuses on how networked publics operate and the effect that particular affordances of digital technologies have on the facets of self we share and connect with as we interact online.

1. Digital Identities:
Who are We in a Networked Public?
Bonnie Stewart
University of Prince Edward Island
#etmooc
March 25, 2013

2. Who are YOU online?
What aspects of your life & self are visible?

3. Identities within Social Networks

4. Facets of Ourselves
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorenjavier/6319823219

5. Affordances
How does the way the Internet works
alter how you can be yourself?

6. The “quacks like a duck”
school of identity

7. Digital Identities = Public
 Aware of being
watched
 Aware of scale of
attention
 Build identity by
repetition
 Build ties by visible http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfgangfoto/2755774089/
communications

8. “Public is used to signal places that are accessible to
anyone (or at least anyone belonging to a privileged
category like adults).
In reference to actions or texts, public often implies
that the audience is unknown and that strangers may
bear witness.
As a noun, public refers to a collection of people who
may not all know each other but share “a common
understanding of the world, a shared identity, a claim
to inclusiveness.”
- danah boyd
Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites, 2007, p. 7

9. Networked Publics
• Multiple, overlapping, global networks
• Always accessible
• Identities are visible, traceable & searchable
• Different audiences all in plain sight
See Kazys Varnelis, danah boyd, Alice Marwick,
Mizuko Ito for more

10. Digital Identities = Multiple

11. How do we navigate
multiplicity?

12. Context Collapse =
…that awkward moment when you
remember you friended your grandma on
Facebook

13. Different contexts have
different legitimacy practices
Academic Learning Networked Learning
product-focused process-focused
institutionally-directed self-directed
mastery participation
bounded by time/space always accessible
hierarchical ties peer-to-peer ties
plagiarism crowdsourcing
authority in role authority in reputation
audience = teacher audience = world

14. Who we are is shaped by the context(s)
we’re addressing

15. The Performative Self

16. The Quantified Self

17. The Participatory Self
http://etmooclearnings.blogspot.ca/2013/03/no-sorry-here-just-thanks.html

18. The Asynchronous Self
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vylen/6158720720
/

19. The Enmeshed Self
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seanrnicholson/6449890509/

20. The Neoliberal Self
“Me, Inc.”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/4880623547

21. Who did I miss?

22. In terms of “quacks like a duck”
identity, in what directions has
#etmooc helped you
explore your own digital selves?