Comments on: Authentic Identity

By: Judy O'Connell

Judy O'Connell — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:26:45 +0000

Hmmmmm, I agree with you Graham (I like your notions about the continuum of choices), and am not so sure that I can agree with Stephen. Identity is who we are, and image is not about conservatice or non-conservative, but in the blogosphere, a combination of image and ‘action’. I have been known by so many first as “heyjude” and only later as “judy O’Connell”, and later still with an image, and am cheefully greeted by some (in real life meetings) or virtual communications with the words “Hey Jude”. Somehow it all comes together. In the same way, I have ‘known’ Graham and Stephen for about the same amount of time, and with or without an image I have always leaned towards the honesty and accuracy of Graham’s words above Stephen’s, and that was before I saw their ‘images’….I don’t think the images operate in a ‘stand-alone’ way, except in the way Graham has indicated – keeping an image true to yourself, whatever personal style you might have, is important for who & what we are/project.

By: wide open spaces » Blog Archive » A turn of twitters

wide open spaces » Blog Archive » A turn of twitters — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:51:22 +0000

[...] While loading my photos from London to Flickr, I surfed toLeigh´s wiki, clicked on Graham Wegner, who is teaching generation Z. I eyeballed his Authentic Identity, laughed at the identification with Hugh McLeod’s cartoon, which I repost here (so you do not have to click on yet another link) because this is what prompted me to write this sequence of twitters [...]

By: Alexander Hayes

Alexander Hayes — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:11:42 +0000

It would, in an age of ubiquity and retinal interrogation by criminal justice departments, be the eye.

Should identity via profanity be the key then in would step Mr. W.

Without a doubt Graham Wegner would be the one to run with as a human

Google supplies the “cyber-bully” hype and del.icio.us provides Wes Fry’s PBWiki resource less the SMH fear overtures – http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/cyberbullying

What this all points at is the profound lack of identifiable curricula material that guides and informs learners as they navigate complex and often hazardous digital domains from elementary school up. I can t ever recall anything other than net rules being enforced.

All I can find other than that in my current workplace is http://web2debate.wikispaces.com

I’m thinking of approaching the ID and BAIT team at at Western Institute , TAFE NSW with a proposal to scope course inclusion for net identity, safety, etiquette and access units to be included in all e-learning content.

Or perhaps I can leave that one well alone, purchase some wings and go out with my family tonight as an avatar conversing synthetically and stopping occasionally to tap stuff into my keyboard.

Ps. for some reason I tagged this bullyboy tactition in my own del.icio.us – http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html

By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:52:00 +0000

I see your point Stephen, I was just trying to illustrate a continuum of possible choices of how to represent myself ranging from no personal input to a genuine pic with real name. I know I am conservative in appearance!! Maybe the diagram needs to be better labelled because in my opinion if I replaced your picture and name with the MysteryMan, then the viewer has two equal choices of two people using the same level of openness (not withstanding appearance prejudice).

By: Stephen Downes

Stephen Downes — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:16:53 +0000

I am in agreemwnt with the general point, but dislike the disgram at the end.

Imagine the same diagram, but with my picture and name replacing ‘Mystery Man’.

People will still select ‘Graham Wegner’ if based on appearance alone, because they are conservative about appearance.

This is not the point you are trying to make in the post, and so the diagram misrepresents the post.