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Showing posts with label social identity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social identity. Show all posts
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Friday, October 3, 2008
AM Wikipedia case
Before my lecture in Seattle in 2006, a friend of mine decided that it would be cool for PR purposes to make a Wikipedia page about me.
It was pretty short article and was marked as a stub, of course.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aleksandar_Ma%C4%87a%C5%A1ev&diff=153082625&oldid=110765556
Two months ago, I realized that it would be nice to lose that "stub" tag and to expand the article to a proper length. I gave my material to a writer that I know and he has written a new article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aleksandar_Ma%C4%87a%C5%A1ev&diff=236527517&oldid=236511758
Here are the changes made by "Wikipedia editors"
- "LGBT visual artist" tag is immediately removed. I provided a plenty of citations and proofs and they removed it again.
- "Atheist" category remained. Although they changed it to "Serbian atheists" where I found myself in the company of only two more persons. Slobodan Milošević, infamous president of Yugoslavia during nineties, and Stevo Žigon, an actor known for his loyalty to SPS (Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia)
- After a while I've found myself in another category: Former Eastern Orthodox Christians. It was added by a guy with a nick "Vojvodaen".
Here's his user page:
It was pretty short article and was marked as a stub, of course.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aleksandar_Ma%C4%87a%C5%A1ev&diff=153082625&oldid=110765556
Two months ago, I realized that it would be nice to lose that "stub" tag and to expand the article to a proper length. I gave my material to a writer that I know and he has written a new article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aleksandar_Ma%C4%87a%C5%A1ev&diff=236527517&oldid=236511758
Here are the changes made by "Wikipedia editors"
- "LGBT visual artist" tag is immediately removed. I provided a plenty of citations and proofs and they removed it again.
- "Atheist" category remained. Although they changed it to "Serbian atheists" where I found myself in the company of only two more persons. Slobodan Milošević, infamous president of Yugoslavia during nineties, and Stevo Žigon, an actor known for his loyalty to SPS (Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia)
- After a while I've found myself in another category: Former Eastern Orthodox Christians. It was added by a guy with a nick "Vojvodaen".
Here's his user page:
Hello!
I am vojvoda from Serb wikipedia and I'll write articles about Serbian history. Visit my site [1]
I am interested in history, Christianity and arts. I believe that conflict betwenn science and Christian faith doesn't exist.
About Wikipedia I think that it is not only source of informations but also guide threw literature.
Here's the final version of the article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar_Macasev
Conclusion:
- it's easier to mark yourself "atheist" than "gay". I suppose you need to work your ass off to prove that you are gay (as I am). But being an atheist is easy because apparently it is still an ideological slur. Equal to communist. That's kinda American point of view, as I see it.
- On the other hand, Vojvodaen who's a Serb, quickly lumped me into a Former Eastern Orthodox Christians category. Because if you state that you are an atheist you must be a traitor of the Christian faith, I suppose. Even if I am actually and officially still a member of the Orthodox Christian Church (I was christened as a kid).
All in all, loads of ideological bulshit. That, need I say, has got nothing with truth.
ID in the networked social media
Virtual ID in this context implies social identity that Web users create and manage on web sites and online communities. Majority of Internet users prefer to identify themselves via pseudonyms, which reveals certain information that identify the person.
Coyne emphasizes that whenever we interact in social sphere it denotes the mask of self - identity. There is no difference in online world if we have in mind that she/he has to respond to certain questions in their profile (age, gender, address, user name, etc.), which makes "identity" in social networks.
As person publishes and (re)presents to the networked publics, she or he are making and adding layers to their masks (in writing style, vocabulary and topics). After all, does mask really hide the identity? When one chooses certain kind of mask, it shows and reveals something about the subject that's behind the mask. Online mask does not reveal the real identity of the person. Even if person decides to hide her/himself behind totally fake identity, this shows fears and the lack of self-esteem. By creating and setting up the identity mask people create safety net/work, facade.
Identity plays very important role in virtual communities. Virtual communities give people freedom in representing themselves, and this results in new possibilities for the society, especially the person's ability to explore new roles in the way that's safer, more interesting, sometimes useful. Virtual identity enabled possibility to feel more comfortable in wide range of roles, which some of them can be underlying life aspects of that person who is not being able to present it in real life (Goffman).
Social online networks (as My Space or Facebook) facilitate to maintain online identity within overlapping dual contexts: online and real world. In these social networks identities are presented as profiles (of the users). Those are often formed identities aiming to reflect certain aspect or the best possible version of -self -I (handsome, over-paid, great income, gym is "the must", high-education, etc.) Representations include beside profile, photos, communication forms with other 'friends', and network members. Goal is to be 'cool", and to receive everyday feedback's through validations of the colleagues, allies, 'friends', fans. In general, people are projecting their identity by demonstrating their relations with others.
This is very short overview as research in the field of social media give us precious insight in human behaviour, society structures and processes of cultural dynamics. This phenomena brought significant changes, not only for people in IT area, but for people in education, business, everyday users. It is necessary to understand what is happening in this context since Web 2.0 reconstructs many key elements in society, create the awareness of information ecology and provide insight for the future innovations.
Coyne emphasizes that whenever we interact in social sphere it denotes the mask of self - identity. There is no difference in online world if we have in mind that she/he has to respond to certain questions in their profile (age, gender, address, user name, etc.), which makes "identity" in social networks.
As person publishes and (re)presents to the networked publics, she or he are making and adding layers to their masks (in writing style, vocabulary and topics). After all, does mask really hide the identity? When one chooses certain kind of mask, it shows and reveals something about the subject that's behind the mask. Online mask does not reveal the real identity of the person. Even if person decides to hide her/himself behind totally fake identity, this shows fears and the lack of self-esteem. By creating and setting up the identity mask people create safety net/work, facade.
Identity plays very important role in virtual communities. Virtual communities give people freedom in representing themselves, and this results in new possibilities for the society, especially the person's ability to explore new roles in the way that's safer, more interesting, sometimes useful. Virtual identity enabled possibility to feel more comfortable in wide range of roles, which some of them can be underlying life aspects of that person who is not being able to present it in real life (Goffman).
Social online networks (as My Space or Facebook) facilitate to maintain online identity within overlapping dual contexts: online and real world. In these social networks identities are presented as profiles (of the users). Those are often formed identities aiming to reflect certain aspect or the best possible version of -self -I (handsome, over-paid, great income, gym is "the must", high-education, etc.) Representations include beside profile, photos, communication forms with other 'friends', and network members. Goal is to be 'cool", and to receive everyday feedback's through validations of the colleagues, allies, 'friends', fans. In general, people are projecting their identity by demonstrating their relations with others.
This is very short overview as research in the field of social media give us precious insight in human behaviour, society structures and processes of cultural dynamics. This phenomena brought significant changes, not only for people in IT area, but for people in education, business, everyday users. It is necessary to understand what is happening in this context since Web 2.0 reconstructs many key elements in society, create the awareness of information ecology and provide insight for the future innovations.
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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