Remix Culture & Immaterial Labour.

Digital Representation & Identity.

Digital identity is and representation is revolved around the concept of the different types of media platforms, which reveal us to represent ourselves in a certain way online. This creates a form of ‘digital identity’.

The fact that we can create digital identity in the 21^st century raises all sorts of arguments. Examples of virtual communities would be twitter, facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn and even dating sites are ways in which individuals can build an identity but adding their interests.  An advantage of these sites is that these new media platforms increase faster social connections for business, advertising, marketing or just pure entertainment. Creating an identity online allows many individuals to display themselves in a manner that they may feel confortable, which can possibly lead to a whole new character. This has its drawbacks as is becomes a risk to believing who your taking to behind ones computer or laptop.

The downsides to the development of identities are also digital identities some individuals to represent themselves in a positive manner if not copy or steal other people’s personalities. A prime example of this is Facebook when people would call themselves similar names or nicknames and liking a vast amount of the same interests.

The idea based around recreation can be argued that it can effect the publics mind psychologically giving certain insecure people may feel it is alright to take others identity or have it contrast to their in real life. This has an effect on their self-esteem and confidence and I say this issue would affect the majority of the female market aged 16-19, (Helliwell & Putnam, 2004) supports this.

There are also posotive ways of displaying identity online through facebook groups and twitter trending topics. These tools are a great way of finding people with similar interests, hoobies or status and strengthens connections. I think these trending topics and facebook groups are a good advantage as you can interact with people you know for a short period of time if needed. You may not nessarily have to reveal information about yourself if you are not direct friends. Facebook groups allow you to put up queries and questions and other social newtworkers who have similar interests can reply and relate.

On the other hand,  there are ways many social networkers reveal information that may have been personal because the digital age. Things such as relationship statuses, age, hometowns, reilgon are all ways of getting to know someone without even interating with them.

As a teenage social networker, I prefer to keep my information protected and reveal as little as possible and not to get to personal. I enjoy interacting with many people in relation to interest and topics, but where relationship statuses, hometown and area codes are concerned I would prefer to keep that to myself. I am very wery of the internet and what I reveal on it as there have been many new reports that have made me quite alert about the society today.

Helliwell J.F. & Putnam R.D. (2004) The social context of well-being, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 359 (1449), 1435-1446.

Web 2.0 Pecha Kucha Presentation.

Web.2.o.pptx

View more presentations from Melissa Mensah

In week 4 of the course, we were given the task to create a Pecha Kucha Presentation where the subject will be based around an aspect of Tim O’Reilly’s Web 2.0. In groups of 4 we had to create a 20 slides and for each slide talk for seconds each!

I found this quite a challenge as I we had to give detailed slides and when speaking get to the point and summarize a slide in a short space of time.   

The aspect of Web 2.0 my group were given to discuss was ‘web as a platform and cloud computing’. The first thing we looked at as a group was splitting up each slide into subheadings so we had an idea of what we would be including and researching.  

We then moved onto youtube effective ways in which we could present our pecha presentation to our peers and good tips and techniques we could take into account. 

We received feedback and comments from our peers, here is what they had to say:

‘interesting and informative’

‘visible slides with a lot of reliable research’

‘spoken and presented clearly’

‘Powerpoint had good use of graphics and images’

‘Spoke to quickly’

‘Low confidence’

‘No eye contact with the audience’


Overall, I think we worked quite well as a group in terms of gathering our research and material and this reflects in our positive feedback. One thing we could have done to work on verbally presenting our information was maybe to have rehearsed the whole presentation before hand as a group rather than have rehearsed individually.