Showing posts with label personal identity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label personal identity. Show all posts
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Exploring identity on social network: Flickr
Flickr is the biggest Web 2.0 social service that enables you to share photography and interact with others. One of the interesting groups on Flickr is 365 days project where one explore self in everyday context (365 days) during a year by publishing a photo (of self) per day. This is great way not only to share and interact the aspects of yourself with others, but also denotes intimate dialogues with (your)self. Outcome is fun, amazing pro photographers you meet, ride per se, and maybe a book.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
5 meme questions on virtual ID/Entity
I don't like memes too much, but since the subject is digital ID/Entity in this project and blog, I will give short replies.
1 Is virtual identity virtual at all?
It is just digital passport for accessing the other medium we have tried to reach since Aristotle, in the form of persistent interactions.
2 5 aspects of your identity that you try to project onto the world?
- i try to be inspirative/primer/ to others
- i try to learn something new each day and give good examples about it to the world
- i try to interact respectfully and listen to the other
- i try to implement personal creativities
- i try not to try anything above, i am just doing it.
3 How do people see you?
Actually here I have interviewed people (allies, colleagues, friends) with who I interact on daily basis and the most overlapping characteristics/perceptions I got as response are the following:
-intelligent
-unique/different
-beautiful
-thoughtful
-good writer (have good ideas)
-very true person ( don't give off a false image)
- analytical,
- insightful,
- scholarly,
- an attractive woman and aware of that.
4 Difference between your real self and the virtual self?
There is no difference. Everything is in your perception.
5 What female celebrity you would like to be (up to three.... living or dead, real or fictional, it doesn't matter)?
None.
If not asked for celebrity - that would be me. Cannot imagine myself or 'would-like-to be' as anyone else.
6 What male celebrity you would like to be (up to three.... living or dead, real or fictional, it doesn't matter)?
None. Same as for female.
I would like to spend some time interacting and brainstorming with some [for me] "celebrities" in my field of interest but I couldn't find anyone real or fictional that I would like to be, rather than me. I am (sub) real.
1 Is virtual identity virtual at all?
It is just digital passport for accessing the other medium we have tried to reach since Aristotle, in the form of persistent interactions.
2 5 aspects of your identity that you try to project onto the world?
- i try to be inspirative/primer/ to others
- i try to learn something new each day and give good examples about it to the world
- i try to interact respectfully and listen to the other
- i try to implement personal creativities
- i try not to try anything above, i am just doing it.
3 How do people see you?
Actually here I have interviewed people (allies, colleagues, friends) with who I interact on daily basis and the most overlapping characteristics/perceptions I got as response are the following:
-intelligent
-unique/different
-beautiful
-thoughtful
-good writer (have good ideas)
-very true person ( don't give off a false image)
- analytical,
- insightful,
- scholarly,
- an attractive woman and aware of that.
4 Difference between your real self and the virtual self?
There is no difference. Everything is in your perception.
5 What female celebrity you would like to be (up to three.... living or dead, real or fictional, it doesn't matter)?
None.
If not asked for celebrity - that would be me. Cannot imagine myself or 'would-like-to be' as anyone else.
6 What male celebrity you would like to be (up to three.... living or dead, real or fictional, it doesn't matter)?
None. Same as for female.
I would like to spend some time interacting and brainstorming with some [for me] "celebrities" in my field of interest but I couldn't find anyone real or fictional that I would like to be, rather than me. I am (sub) real.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Identity tidbits
Identity
In philosophy, personal identity refers to the essence of a self-conscious person, that which makes him or her unique. It persists making the person modifications happen through one single identity.
In philosophy, identity (also called sameness) is whatever makes an entity definable and recognizable, in terms of possessing a set of qualities or characteristics that distinguish it from entities of a different type.
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Personal identity
The question regarding personal identity has addressed the conditions under which a person at one time is the same person at another time, known as personal continuity.
John Locke considered personal identity (or the self) to be founded on consciousness (viz. Memory), and not on the substance of either the soul or the body.
Amnesia???
In psychology (which historically is philosophically concerned with dualism), personal continuity, also called personal persistence, is the uninterrupted connection concerning a particular person of his or her private life and personality. Personal continuity is the union affecting the facets arising from personality in order to avoid discontinuities from one moment of time to another time.
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Social identity
Identity is an umbrella term used throughout the social sciences to describe an individual's comprehension of him or herself as a discrete, separate entity.
Identity may be contrasted with the notion of self. In psychology, a psychological identity relates to self-image (a person's mental model of him or herself), self-esteem, and individuation. An important part of identity in psychology is gender identity, as this dictates to a significant degree how an individual views him or herself both as a person and in relation to other people. In cognitive psychology, the term "identity" refers to the capacity for self-reflection and the awareness of self.[2].
The Eriksonian framework rests upon a distinction among the psychological sense of continuity, known as the ego identity (sometimes identified simply as "the self"); the personal idiosyncrasies that separate one person from the next, known as the personal identity; and the collection of social roles that a person might play, known as either the social identity or the cultural identity.
These different explorations of ‘identity’ demonstrate how difficult a concept it is to pin down. Since identity is a virtual thing, it is impossible to define it empirically. Discussions of identity use the term with different meanings, from fundamental and abiding sameness, to fluidity, contingency, negotiated and so on.
In sociology and political science, the notion of social identity is defined as the way that individuals label themselves as members of particular groups (e.g., nation, social class, subculture, ethnicity, gender, etc.). It is in this sense that sociologists and historians speak of the national identity of a particular country, and feminist and queer theorists speak of gender identity. Symbolic interactionism (SI) attempts to show how identity can influence, and be influenced by, social reality at large.
Identity has played a functional role in social movements. By emphasizing a group identity, social movements have sought to strengthen politically oppressed groups both by improving members' sense of confidence and by familiarizing the external society with the existing social group. However, national or ethnic identity is sometimes also tied to demagogy, leading to ethnic or religious conflicts.
Postmodern views of identity understand it as a function of historical and cultural circumstances.
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National identity
A nation is a human cultural and social community. In as much as most members never meet each other, yet feel a common bond, it may be considered an imagined community. One of the most influential doctrines in Western Europe and the Western hemisphere since the late eighteenth century is that all humans are divided into groups called nations.[1] Nationhood is an ethical and philosophical doctrine and is the starting point for the ideology of nationalism; a nation is a form of self-defined cultural and social community.[2] Members of a "nation" share a common identity, and usually a common origin, in the sense of history, ancestry, parentage or descent. A nation extends across generations, and includes the dead as full members. Past events are framed in this context: for example, by referring to "our soldiers" in conflicts which took place hundreds of years ago. More vaguely, nations are assumed to include future generations.
In philosophy, personal identity refers to the essence of a self-conscious person, that which makes him or her unique. It persists making the person modifications happen through one single identity.
In philosophy, identity (also called sameness) is whatever makes an entity definable and recognizable, in terms of possessing a set of qualities or characteristics that distinguish it from entities of a different type.
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Personal identity
The question regarding personal identity has addressed the conditions under which a person at one time is the same person at another time, known as personal continuity.
John Locke considered personal identity (or the self) to be founded on consciousness (viz. Memory), and not on the substance of either the soul or the body.
Amnesia???
In psychology (which historically is philosophically concerned with dualism), personal continuity, also called personal persistence, is the uninterrupted connection concerning a particular person of his or her private life and personality. Personal continuity is the union affecting the facets arising from personality in order to avoid discontinuities from one moment of time to another time.
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Social identity
Identity is an umbrella term used throughout the social sciences to describe an individual's comprehension of him or herself as a discrete, separate entity.
Identity may be contrasted with the notion of self. In psychology, a psychological identity relates to self-image (a person's mental model of him or herself), self-esteem, and individuation. An important part of identity in psychology is gender identity, as this dictates to a significant degree how an individual views him or herself both as a person and in relation to other people. In cognitive psychology, the term "identity" refers to the capacity for self-reflection and the awareness of self.[2].
The Eriksonian framework rests upon a distinction among the psychological sense of continuity, known as the ego identity (sometimes identified simply as "the self"); the personal idiosyncrasies that separate one person from the next, known as the personal identity; and the collection of social roles that a person might play, known as either the social identity or the cultural identity.
These different explorations of ‘identity’ demonstrate how difficult a concept it is to pin down. Since identity is a virtual thing, it is impossible to define it empirically. Discussions of identity use the term with different meanings, from fundamental and abiding sameness, to fluidity, contingency, negotiated and so on.
In sociology and political science, the notion of social identity is defined as the way that individuals label themselves as members of particular groups (e.g., nation, social class, subculture, ethnicity, gender, etc.). It is in this sense that sociologists and historians speak of the national identity of a particular country, and feminist and queer theorists speak of gender identity. Symbolic interactionism (SI) attempts to show how identity can influence, and be influenced by, social reality at large.
Identity has played a functional role in social movements. By emphasizing a group identity, social movements have sought to strengthen politically oppressed groups both by improving members' sense of confidence and by familiarizing the external society with the existing social group. However, national or ethnic identity is sometimes also tied to demagogy, leading to ethnic or religious conflicts.
Postmodern views of identity understand it as a function of historical and cultural circumstances.
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National identity
A nation is a human cultural and social community. In as much as most members never meet each other, yet feel a common bond, it may be considered an imagined community. One of the most influential doctrines in Western Europe and the Western hemisphere since the late eighteenth century is that all humans are divided into groups called nations.[1] Nationhood is an ethical and philosophical doctrine and is the starting point for the ideology of nationalism; a nation is a form of self-defined cultural and social community.[2] Members of a "nation" share a common identity, and usually a common origin, in the sense of history, ancestry, parentage or descent. A nation extends across generations, and includes the dead as full members. Past events are framed in this context: for example, by referring to "our soldiers" in conflicts which took place hundreds of years ago. More vaguely, nations are assumed to include future generations.
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