Comments on: Pew Report on Digital Identity http://fstutzman.com/2007/12/17/pew-report-on-digital-identity/ Thoughts about information, social networks, and privacy Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:23:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Bertil http://fstutzman.com/2007/12/17/pew-report-on-digital-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-1053 Bertil Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:18:00 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/~fred/projects/blog/?p=537#comment-1053 Am I the only one surprised to see that as many people have been looking for legal information or a photo? It sounds very peculiar to look for such info, outside of a professional context (and I'm assuming only a few would) or dating; in the second case, people would most likely look for a photo too. In the meantime, photos are the key feature in all SNS Am I the only one surprised to see that as many people have been looking for legal information or a photo? It sounds very peculiar to look for such info, outside of a professional context (and I’m assuming only a few would) or dating; in the second case, people would most likely look for a photo too. In the meantime, photos are the key feature in all SNS

]]> By: Paul Jones http://fstutzman.com/2007/12/17/pew-report-on-digital-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-1052 Paul Jones Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:15:00 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/~fred/projects/blog/?p=537#comment-1052 Among writers, the practice of going to the card catalog in each library that we visited and looking up ourselves and our friends was/is called "Whitmanizing" ("I celebrate myself, and sing myself"). Google News alerts do the same now for folks with less common names. The more earnest, more curious and perhaps more insecure writers would call for their books to see how often those books were checked out -- if ever.<br/><br/>Now we have stats on others that see us (in the collective). We become reputation managers mostly after the fact constructing our identities again and again. (Here I go myself).<br/><br/>Management is one issue, but the more important issue will be how we learn to read not only our reputation, our digital footprints, but what level of literacy we attain in reading those of others as we come to grips with the shifting nature of identities and of the performance of those identities across time and circumstance. Among writers, the practice of going to the card catalog in each library that we visited and looking up ourselves and our friends was/is called “Whitmanizing” (“I celebrate myself, and sing myself”). Google News alerts do the same now for folks with less common names. The more earnest, more curious and perhaps more insecure writers would call for their books to see how often those books were checked out — if ever.

Now we have stats on others that see us (in the collective). We become reputation managers mostly after the fact constructing our identities again and again. (Here I go myself).

Management is one issue, but the more important issue will be how we learn to read not only our reputation, our digital footprints, but what level of literacy we attain in reading those of others as we come to grips with the shifting nature of identities and of the performance of those identities across time and circumstance.

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