THE DIGITAL

SELF
 PHYSICAL
SELF
THE SEXUAL
DIGITAL
SELF
SELF

SELF
MATERIAL
THE AND
SPIRITUAL ECONOMIC
SELF SELF
INTRODUCTION
•The number of people who are becoming more active
online continues to increase worldwide. More than
half of the population worldwide now uses the
internet.
•It has only been 25 years since Tim Berners-Lee
made the World Wide Web (WWW) available to the
public, but in that time, the Internet has become an
integral part of everyday life for most of the world’s
population.
•The Philippines is among one of the countries with
DIGITAL SELF
•The digital self is the persona you use when
you’re online.
•Some people maintain one or more online
identities that are different from their “real
world” selves;
•others have a single online self that’s more or
less the same as the one they inhabit in the real
world.
DIGITAL SELF
•Why is the digital self so important for your career? The
simple reason is that once you go online as your real self,
using your own name or appearance, you have an online
presence that can be traced back to you in the real world.
•Your online presence is hard to hide, difficult to control,
and easy for recruiters and hiring managers to find. Because
of this, it’s important to manage your online identity
carefully, to ensure that your public image—your brand—is
presented in the best possible light.
ELEMENTS OF THE DIGITAL SELF
A. Your online behavior
• People tend to assume that your online actions are representative of the way you are in
person.
• Consistency of behavior is important, either in the actual or digital ones,
B. Your online voice
• When you post online, what do you say? Are you controversial, contentious, or
otherwise inappropriate?
• Do you add value to conversations?
C. Your online presentation.
• From your blog, vlog, website, or Facebook profile, the images, fonts, and other style
elements you choose can say a lot about you.
• Maintaining a professional online visual image is just as important as any other aspect of
digital presentation.
REAL LIFE SPACE
 A. REAL-LIFE REALITY
• Outside the cyberspace is the reality with which you engage most frequently.
• Basically, this pertains to life away from digital devices and where interaction
happens on a physical level.
B. SIMULATION
• Quite simply, simulation’s basic purpose is to copy reality as closely
as it can.
• Microsoft’s now-discontinued multimedia encyclopedia Encarta
offers virtual tours of historical landmarks, while Facebook’s
360-degree view feature enables you to panoramically survey
places as if you are really there.
 C. AUGMENTED REALITY
• This is real-life reality spliced with the
UNREAL. Through rather creative
ways, augmented reality permits you
to simultaneously interact with both
the tangible world and various digital
add-ons for a more enhanced
experience.
VIRTUAL SPACE
 VIRTUAL REALITY
• Type of abstraction completely
detached from real-life reality.
• Here you are granted relative freedom
to explore and eventually inhabit
digitally made-up worlds vicariously
through a character or avatar you can
create yourself.
• This is often aided by devices such as
game controllers and keyboards,
and VR technologies like the Oculus
Rift.
REMINDERS!!!
Here are additional guidelines for proper sharing of information and
ethical use of the Internet
• Stick to safer sites
• Guard your passwords
• Limit what you share
• Remember that anything you put an online post on a site is there
forever, even if you try to delete it.
• Do not be mean or embarrass other people online.
• Always tell if you see strange or bad behavior online.
• Be choosy about your online friends.
 THE CYBERSELF

“Choose your self-presentation carefully,

for what starts out as a mask may become
your face.”
-Erving Goffman