Being online: identity, anonymity, and all things in between
To be or not to be: that is the question. Hamlet’s famous utterance plays a trick on theater-goers, a mind game of the same type he inflicted constantly on his family and his court. While diverting his...
View ArticleBeing online: Your identity in real life–what people know
But he that writes of you, if he can tell that you are you, so dignifies his story. (This post is the second in a series called “Being online: identity, anonymity, and all things in between.”) Long...
View ArticleBeing online: Your identity online–getting down to basics
What men daily do, not knowing what they do! (This post is the third in a series called “Being online: identity, anonymity, and all things in between.”) Previous posts in this series explored the...
View ArticleBeing online: Your identity to advertisers–it's not all about you
Thy self thou gav’st, thy own worth then not knowing (This post is the fourth in a series called “Being online: identity, anonymity, and all things in between.”) Voracious data foraging leads...
View ArticleBeing online: What you say about yourself, or selves
Which is the natural man, and which the spirit? who deciphers them? (This post is the fifth in a series called “Being online: identity, anonymity, and all things in between.”) What we’ve seen so far...
View ArticleBeing online: Forged identities and non-identities
Haply you shall not see me more; or if, a mangled shadow. (This post is the sixth in a series called “Being online: identity, anonymity, and all things in between.”) One reason Sherry Turkle saw the...
View ArticleBeing online: Group identities and social network identities
So may a thousand actions, once afoot, End in one purpose, and be all well borne Without defeat. (This is the seventh post in a series called “Being online: identity, anonymity, and all things in...
View ArticleBeing online: Conclusion–identity narratives
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. (This is the final post in a series called “Being online: identity, anonymity, and all things in between.”) After viewing in rotation the various facets...
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Pew Research asks questions about the Internet in 2020
Pew Research, which seems to be interested in just about everything, conducts a “future of the Internet” survey every few years in which they throw outrageously open-ended and provocative questions at...
View ArticlePlanning a better whistleblowers' site: a review of Domscheit-Berg's book...
Amidst all the arguments about whether WikiLeaks is good, bad, sustainable, replicable, or just plain inevitable, I’ve been frustrated by two gaps in the discussion. First, commentators tend to treat...
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