Who I Am in The Cyber World (Digital Self)

WHO AM I IN
THE CYBER WORLD
“DIGITAL SELF”
PRESENTERS:
Laput, Kirk
Lucero, Agatha
Lucero, renIel Dave
Lacastesantos, Melvin
Mariano, jaydharl
Selective Self-presentation and Impression
Management
Even if the student wrote it a “private’ email, it can become public with a screen capture and shared
with the world, Personal identity is the interpersonal level of self that differentiates the individual as
unique from others, while social Identity is the level of self whereby the individual is identified by
his or her group memberships. But digital devices us share more, as well as more broadly, than ever
before, For those active on Facebook, it is likely that their social media friends know more than their
immediate families about their daily connections, and thoughts. Despite the tension between privacy
and potential celebrity, our online confessions are also part of the self-therapeutic aspect of sharing.
Needed Extended Self updates Due to sharing:
Self-Revelation
The sharing of information about self online facilitated by the disinhibition and confidential effects
means that it is now far easier to present our selves In ways that would have been awkward at best in
pre digital times. Madden and Smith (2010) report that 53% of American adults admit online “ego
searching” for information about themselves. As noted earlier, this has led some researchers to
emphasize actively managing identities. This is part of a progression from ascribed to achieved to
managed social identity.
Needed Extended Self Updates Due to sharing:
Loss of Control
Online sharing confidences with friends is not new, but the potential audience is now far broader.
Even if we restrict content to a designated circle of online friends, there is no guarantee that the
information will not be reposted or quoted. While we may exercise self-control, it is far harder to
control all our digital self representations when others may reshare with unintended audiences.
Needed Extended Self Updates Due to Sharing:
Shared Digital Possessions
and Aggregate Self
When things are jointly owned, they are also likely to be more relevant to the aggregate level of
those with whom they are shared. In the digital realm, however, we are part of imagined communities
whose members may not be personally known aside from their pseudonyms and online contributions.
Both the act of sharing and the sense of joint possession enhance the sense of an imagined
community and the aggregate next-door self in a digital age.
Needed Extended sew Updates due to Sharing:
Shared Sense of (Cyber) space
The sense of aggregate self can also extend to a shared sense of space online. The whole point of
Web 2.0 and most digital devices is to facilitate access and communication. The Internet and many
digital devices free us from the constraints of time and place and create other, virtual, times and
places. Cyberspace can be considered a part of the aggregate extended self shared with other
participants. Molesworth (2012) criticizes such flānerie as largely passive and solitary experiences.
Steinkuehler and Williams conclude that “thirds are places where participants can themselves”.
Gender and Sexuality online
“Sexuality” is often thought of as synonymous with “sexuality,” but they are actually quite distinct.
Sex is the biological state that corresponds to what we might call a “man” or a “woman”. Gender is
the social understanding of how sex should experience and how sex manifests in behaviour,
personality, preferences, capabilities, and so forth. Male normativity is the presumption of
heterosexuality unless explicitly stated. Queer can be used as an umbrella term for non-normative
expressions of sexuality, including practices like polyamory and bondage. Bisexuality, pansexuality,
and other forms of desire are often marginalized or written-out of mainstream discourse.
Performing Gender Online
Judith Butler argued that popular understandings of gender and sexuality came to be through
discourse and social processes. Gender is produced through millions of individual actions, rather than
something that comes naturally to men and women. A woman is sashaying down the street, we foster
feelings of community and an aggregate sense of self, even with others.
Setting Boundaries to Your Online Self: Smart
Sharing
Is this post or story necessary?

Is there a real benefit to this post—is it funny, warm-hearted, teachable—or am I just making noise
online without purpose?
Have we (as a family or parent/child) resolved this issue? An issue that is still being worked out at
home or one that is either vulnerable or highly emotional should not be made public.
Is it appropriate? Does it stay within the boundaries of our family values?
 Will this seem as funny in 5, 10, or 15 years? Or is this post better suited for sharing with a small
group of family members? Or maybe not at all?
Rules to Follow
Additional guidelines for proper sharing of information and using the internet.
(Your Online identity)
stick to safer sites.

Guard your passwords.
Limit what you share.
Remember that anything you put online or post on a site is there forever, even if you
try to delete.
Do not be mean or embarrass other people online.
Always tellif you soe strange or bad online behavior.
Be choosy about your online friends.
 Be patient.
ABSTRACTIONS
The number online continues to increase worldwide. More than half of the population uses internet. It has only
been 25 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee made the “World Wide Web” to the public and become part of everyday
life. The Philippines is one of the countries with active Internet users. More than half of the world now uses a
smartphone
almost 2/3 of the world’s population now has a mobile
phone.
more than half of the world’s web traffic now comes from
mobile phones.
More than half of the world are now “broadband” connection.
More than one in five world’s population shopped online in past 30 days.
IDENTITIES
Online Identity: the sum of all our character traits and our interactions while.
Partial Identity – a subset of characteristics that make up our identity.
 Meanwhile PERSONA is the PARTIAL identity we create that represents one’s self in a specific
situation.
Selective Self- Presentation and Impression Management
Self presentation is the “process of controlling how one is perceived by other people” and is the key
to relationship inception and development.
-Goffman, E. (1959) and Leary, M. R (1995.
-Anything we posted online, we should

consider PUBLIC no matter what our
PRIVACY.
PERSONAL and S0CIAL Identity
 Personal identity - is the interpersonal level of the self that differentiates the individual as
unique from others.
 Social Identity - is the level of self whereby the individual is identified by his of her group
memberships.
Self Sharing in the Cyberspace
Based from Belk’s (2013) Extended Self in a Digital World, Sharing itself is not a new and had arguably been
around as long as humankind. But digital devices help us share more, as well as more broadly, than ever before.
In older family albums, the photographer was not often represented in the album (Mendelson and Papacharissi
2011), whereas with arm’s length photos, they necessarily are included. As Schwars (2010) point out, we have
entered an unprecedented era of self- portraiture.
Together with blogs and web pages, this led to greater self-reflection as well as more digital bits of the extended
self to represent us, sometimes with multiple daily updates.
This led to researcher to be concerned with actively managing identity and reputation and to warn against the
phenomenon of “oversharing.”
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Is this post or story necessary?

stick to safer sites.

-Goffman, E. (1959) and Leary, M. R (1995.

-Anything we posted online, we should

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