Archive for the ‘online identity’ Category

FAO My Students.

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

The End of Online Anonymity - ReadWriteWeb via kwout

Facebook: Cleanse or Delete?

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Let's see. We've all had our Facebook profiles for at least 18 months. We've requested to add/accepted all our friends, family, classmates, housemates, co-workers, ex-co-workers, ex-school friends, their siblings and girlfriends/boyfriends, lecturers, students, members of sports teams, people we've met once, people we have never met but think we might ...

Amplified 2008

Monday, December 1st, 2008

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Image Courtesy of Phil Campbell"]     Image Courtesy of Benjamin Ellis   Last Thursday, I dragged my pre-man-flu self down to London to visit Nesta's headquarters for Amplified 08 - a non-conference to bring together creatives, practitioners, academics - or indeed anyone that was interesting in social media - who had taken part in previous events ...

Managing Identities: Part 2 (Netvibes)

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

The smallworlds project aims to introduce emerging online research tools, such as Twitter and Delicious, at a grassroots level to early stage laboratory students at the University of Leicester. For many of the students that we met at the introductory sessions last week, this was their first encounter with these sites - and ...

Managing Identities: Part One

Monday, October 13th, 2008

It was decided when we started the small worlds project that those involved would create an alternative twitter identity from that they were currently using day-to-day. When I set up @jennifermjones - it got us reflecting on how separate twitter identities would be managed practically (to come shortly). In particular, it could me ...