Digital Identity Shirley Williams University of Reading
Jan 14, 2016
Digital Identity
Shirley Williams
University of Reading
Digital Identity
• We use the term "digital identity" (DI) to describe the persona an individual presents across all the digital spaces that he/she is represented in.
DI
Facets of DI
• There maybe a number of facets to a person’s DI
• What sort of DI should an e-Researcher have?
Exercise
• Think of an established researcher that you admire.
• How do we establish what sort of DI do they present?
That’s the right one- Lets try some of the tabs
ImpressiveWhat else?
What nothing since 2005?
Let’s try Google Scholar
Not our Mark, lets add the middle initial we saw earlier. That doesn’t help. What about adding “Reading”That doesn’t help either.But earlier we had an email address let’s try that:
Ok that’s the one, more to see here
<rdf:RDF>−<foaf:Person rdf:ID="me"><foaf:name>Mark Baker</foaf:name><foaf:title>Prof</foaf:title><foaf:givenname>Mark</foaf:givenname><foaf:family_name>Baker</foaf:family_name><foaf:nick>mordillo</foaf:nick><foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://acet.rdg.ac.uk/~mab"/><foaf:phone rdf:resource="tel:0118-378-8615"/><foaf:workplaceHomepage rdf:resource="http://acet.rdg.ac.uk/~mab"/></foaf:Person></rdf:RDF>
FOAF?
Is this the same mordillo?Don’t know!
DI
DI
Web 2.0 DI
Interaction and dialogue
CollaborationFeeds
Tags
TrustReputation
Lack of Control
Fraud
Examples
• Blogs• Social book marking• Social networking• VOIP/messaging• File sharing
• Wordpress• Delicious• Ning• Skype• Flickr
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Discussion Points 1
• Should you try and retain separate DIs for private and professional lives?– E.g. multiple Facebook accounts
• Is your DI altered by:– The people you follow?– The people who follow you?
Discussion Points 2
• Does a Web 2.0 DI help your research career?
• Can Web 2.0 DI damage your research career?
• If you ignore Web 2.0 is it not there?
Thank you
You can find me at:Email:[email protected], del.icio.us, Skype:shirleyearleyBlog:http://redgloo.sse.reading.ac.uk/ssswills/weblogSecond Life: Rosie Luna
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