THE DIGITAL SELF

PREPARED BY:
DANICA T. MENDOZA
 The Digital Self and other Cyberspace

• The Digital Self. Exploring the complications, conveniences, and

conflicts that technology presents in personal and professional
relationships.
• Cyberspace is interconnected technology. The term entered the popular
culture from science fiction and the arts but is now used by technology
strategists, security professionals, government, military and industry
leaders and entrepreneurs to describe the domain of the global
technology environment.
Me, Myself, and My user ID Online Identity

• Self Identity is composed of relatively

permanent self-assessments, such as personality
attributes, knowledge of one's skills and abilities,
one's occupation and hobbies, and awareness of
one's physical attributes.
 Why is it important to have self identity?

• Developing a strong sense of identity and self

esteem is important for many reasons. People
that don't have a strong sense of their own
identity may be easily influenced by others. They
may have trouble making decisions and may get
involved in unhealthy relationships.
 Why is it important to have an identity?

• Identity also helps us to make decisions and to know

how to behave. But strong identities can also be
dangerous. The drive to protect your identity can be
overpowering. Sometimes we can get so caught up in
this that we neglect other important things: like being
open-minded, truth-seeking, and kind to others.
 MY USER ID ONLINE IDENTITY

• User identification (user ID) is a logical entity used to

identify a user on a software, system, website or within
any generic IT environment. It is used within any IT
enabled system to identify and distinguish between the
users who access or use it. A user ID may also be
termed as username or user identifier.
 What is your online identity?
• Internet identity (IID), also online identity or
internet persona, is a social identitythat an
Internet user establishes in online communities
and websites. It can also be considered
as an actively constructed presentation of
oneself.
 SELECTIVE SELF PRESENTATION AND
IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT

•Self-presentation is the processes

individuals use to control the
impressions of others social
interaction.
 Types of Self-presentation
• Authentic - Goal is to create an image consistent with the way
we view ourselves.
• Ideal - Goal is to establish an image consistent with what we
wish we were.
• Tactical self-presentation - Goal is to establish a public image
consistent with what others want or expect us to be.
 WHAT IS IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT

• Impression management is a conscious or

subconscious process in which people attempt
to influence the perceptions of other people about
a person, object or event. They do so by regulating
and controlling information in social interaction
Impact of Online Interaction on the Self
 What is Online Interaction
• A mutual or reciprocal action or influence over the
internet. Web-Based Technologies for Ensuring
Interaction in Online Courses: Faculty Choice and
Student Perception of Web-Based Technologies
for Interaction in Online Economics.
 Boundaries of the Self:
Private vs. Public;
Personal/Individual vs. Social Identity;
Online Gender and Sexuality Online
 Boundaries of the Self
• A momentary self refers to all the components
and properties of a given self at a certain point in
time. In other words, it includes everything that
falls within the boundaries of a single self at a
single instant.
 Public vs. Private Self
• Private and Public Self- is a fundamental human trait
relevant to a broad range of attitudes, emotions, and
behaviors of interest to social scientists. Because humans
experience forms of self-consciousness that no other
organism experiences, the study of self-consciousness
addresses the fundamental question of what it means to be
human.
 Personal/Individual vs. Social Identity

• Personal identity refers to self-categories which define

the individual as a unique person in terms of their
individual differences from other (in group) persons.
Social identity refers to the social categorical self (e.g.,
"us" versus "them", in group versus out group, us
women, men, whites, blacks, etc.)
 Online Gender and Sexuality online

• As a subdiscipline of Social Sciences,

Gender & Sexuality Studies teaches
you the historic, social, and cultural
views of gender representation.