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Tag Archives: Identity

Self-definition in social media: I am not my online profile

02-Jan-13

Think about it. Media literacy no longer protects “only” the quality of the information we take in. It now protects our relationships and even our identities – on several levels. It’s an understatement to say we need to be media literate more than ever now. I’ve posted plenty about the relationships part (social literacy), so [...]

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How anonymity’s a safety factor: 1 clear example

13-Aug-12

People sometimes fear or vilify online anonymity, and there are well-lighted places like Facebook where reliance on offline identity is a safety factor, but we seem often to forget that anonymity is a safety factor too, one that long predates the Internet. Well-known examples are political and human-rights activists in many parts of the world [...]

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2 key SXSW themes: Anonymity & meaningfulness

18-Mar-11

Sometimes they intersect. Both are vitally important to all of us.

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Employers checking the Web: Study

26-May-10

This isn’t about summer jobs for teens, necessarily, but teens may want some hard evidence that their social networking profiles and other online activities could factor into their job searches going forward. So here’s some data from Microsoft: a survey of “1,200 hiring and recruitment managers and 1,200 consumers in the United States, the UK, [...]

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