Posts Tagged: identity

Tobias Leingruber – The Future of Identity in a Digital World

By Andrew Erlanger, March 24, 2013

Tobias Leingruber is part of the Free Art and Technology Lab, a diverse collection of artists, engineers, scientists, lawyers and musicians who strive to enrich the public domain ‘one mutha-fuckin LOL at a time’. Embracing this spirit, the Munich-based communication designer spent years remixing the web with various hacks before turning his attention to Mark [...]

I Am Other/Undisclosed

By Andrew Erlanger, March 19, 2013

Please complete the following sentence: I am… How many different responses can you come up with and, more importantly, what do they say about you? In 1954, Manfred Kuhn and Thomas McPartland developed the twenty statements test, an influential instrument used to measure self concept. The test requires respondents to complete the sentence “I am…” [...]
Who am I? This question, asked so often, is deceptively...

British government suggests we are what we tweet, but what does this mean for social network citizens?

By Andrew Erlanger, February 19, 2013

Who am I? This question, asked so often, is deceptively profound and intrinsically difficult to answer. But this hasn’t deterred the British government from trying. In a new report titled Future Identities, the government has sought to understand our contemporary expression of the self and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the findings indicate that we are what we tweet (or post, like, [...]

The seductive power of Facebook

By Michelle Oosthuyzen, May 24, 2012

Since the advent of social media, creating online representations as streams of personal data becomes a dominant social behavior in our contemporary society. On the online stage of Facebook, people are totally caught up in their self-performance and the drive to collect (real-time) information from others, their behaviour effectively influenced, by default invading their privacy. [...]

“What is Reification 2.0?”, Asks Dylan Wittkower

By lisavanpappelendam, March 9, 2012

Reification 2.0 runs parallel to Web 2.0. We are continuously taking an active role in this online process of reification. We reify ourselves and others. Or so claims Dylan Wittkower (pictured right) on the morning of March 9th, 2012. Wittkower starts his talk at the Unlike Us #2 conference with an explanation of David Fincher’s movie [...]