Evan Williams | evhead: Five Easy Pieces of Online Identity
Ev Williams tries to boil down identity to five parts:
- Authentication - Do you have permission?
- Representation - Who are you?
- Communication - How do I reach you?
- Personalization - What do you prefer?
- Reputation - How do others regard you?
This is a very tool-centric, or marketing-centric approach, and leaves out — or dismisses — all the messy and interesting philosophical aspects of identity.
Consider issues like publicy: How much of these various aspects of identity do you want to be revealed? Or context-based identity: you are a different you with the bowling league, at work, or on Suicide Girls.
Ev’s list is based on information flows — how people and systems might communicate or interact with people through identity markers of various kinds — but it doesn’t get at our personal motivations, needs, or requirements around identity as an aspect of human psychology.
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Oh dear lord. It’s not like there aren’t whole bodies of communication literature devoted to self-presentation on the...
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