Heather D's List: Digital Natives/Identity

•  Social media activities are associated with several beneficial social  activities, including having discussion networks that are more likely to contain  people from different backgrounds.

  • Like digital immigrants. Able to forge connections with people of different backgrounds because they are connected.
• For instance, frequent internet users, and those who maintain a blog are much  more likely to confide in someone who is of another race.
• more diverse social network.

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• for who one is.
• for who one is. However, other perspectives of adolescent development  view the  construction of self as one that involves
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• unitary sense of identity is constructed after a successful search for who  one is.
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  constructed     after a successful search  for who  one is. However, other perspectives of adolescent development view the  construction of self as one that involves multiple "public" selves which are  presented according to the demands and constraints of particular situations
• The results suggest that teenagers stay closer to reality in their online  expressions of self than has previously been suggested,

  • Like intro of "Born Digital": there is no online identity and offline identity. Identity is fluid between different spaces.
• One place that adolescents now spend a considerable amount of time is in online  settings, and these online venues, such as multi-user domains (MUDs), have been  linked to identity exploration (Turkle, 1995).
• ). Identity also involves a sense of continuity of self images over time

  • "Continuity" implies one singular identity, or a reconciling of identity.
• search    for who one  is.
• a unitary sense of identity is constructed

  • Unitary identity!!
• constructed  after a successful search  for who one is.
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• exploring their identity
• , constructing identity can be a continual process for adolescents,

  • Does this match my thesis? If identity constuction is continuous, does that necessarily mean it is always changing? Or does that mean it is a singular identity?

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• persistent identity
• s tied real-world individuals to their internet personas more closely than ever  before.

  • Like Indiana article... identity is shared between spaces.
• trail of breadcrumbs that lead from our online identities to our real ones.
• leave fewer identifying footprints in our digital wake if we don’t like the  implications of persistent identity.

  • Different from Indiana article. Identity is fluid between spaces, but we don't necessarily realize/like that? "Persistent" identity is not done on purpose? Do children of immigrants have "persistent" identities, or "shared" identities?

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• I  mean this   completely uncynically: your name is a  brand
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• As the Internet has “grown up” over the past few years, one of the major trends  has been a move away from anonymity toward the credibility of real names

  • Inherent desire to always use the same identity
• aggregating our various online avatars into one coherent identity.
• , but if you’re going through all that trouble to aggregate everything – from  blog entries to Flickr comments – aren’t you constructing digital identity so  complete as to almost mirror your nondigital one?

  • Aggregation = Desire for one identity. Why do we "share" things on facebook? Why do we have social bookmarking like Diigo? Why do we have blogs where we can talk and talk about ourselves?
• e world of social media, your identity – your real name – has value. I mean this  completely uncynically: your name is a brand.
• – building a digital network that has real value.
• shifting identities as a young adult

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• maintain two personas: a real-life self and a digital self
• accounts. Teens today are entrenched in the online world, but do they really  know
• know  how to create, and control, their  own virtual persona?
• may use several different personas according to the medium and the group,”
• a brand name,”

  • Same as the Harvard Law Blog! Your name is your brand. This is why there has been a shift to using real names.
• every virtual space they are represented in reflects how they view themselves  and how they would like the world to view them,

  • Fallacy? These are not the same things: "how they would like the world to view them" and "how they view themselves." Is this like Chris's avatar? "Idealized" versions of ourselves?
• communicates differently

  • A sign of different identities?
• our identities are now defined by what we do and how we interact online.

  • This proves my point! Even if kids present themselves in different ways, there real life identity is somehow inextricably attached to their online identity. They are not separate things.

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• .  No ego is an island to itself.
• No  ego is an island to itself
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• of personal sameness and continuity,
• unique unification
• a young person who has found himself [sic] as he has found his  communality.
• The "socio" part of identity, then, must be accounted for in that communality  within which an individual finds himself.

  • Social networking sites are a 'community'. Blogs are a "community". Flickr is a "community". We merge these communities in order to forge one single identity... to "find" ourselves.
• personal coherence of the individual and role integration in his group;

  • Does social media allow us to become a "coherent" indvidual? Or would we rather be incoherent individuals?
• Every person and every group harbors a negative identity as the  sum of all those identifications and identity fragments which the individual had  to submerge in himself as undesirable or irreconcilable

  • Do these identity fragments remain all that is left when interacting with social media? Does social media hinder or help dealing with identity fragments?
• collective strife or epidemic tension

  • There WILL be tension in reconciling fragmented identity.
• a singular chance for a collective renewal which opens up unlimited identities

  • The Multiple into the Singular. Unlimitied identities are reconciled in order to represent "a new leadership".
• , represent a new leadership,

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• the mind as constantly in conflict with itself
• eventual division of the mind into three parts, three conflicting internal  tendencies, the well-known id, ego, and super-ego.
• ego acts as a go-between in the id's relations with reality, often supressing  the id's urges until an appropriate situation arises.
• With the formation of the ego, the individual becomes a self

  • "A self." This is singular. Yes, there are warring, divisive entities. Superego compels the ego to forbid the id from pursuing unwise goals that would result in pleasure, but little else. Are these separate identities? Yes, they are. This kind of warring is necessary in order to form the "self". ?

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