DIGITAL SELF

1. I am ___________________________.
2. I am ___________________________.
3. I am ___________________________.
4. I am ___________________________.
Lesson 5: DIGITAL SELF
 It has been 25 years since Tim Berners-Lee made the
World Wide Web available to public.
 The Philippines is among one of the countries with the
most active Internet Users.
Rio Charmae Torreon
 Self-representation is “process of controlling how one is
perceived by other people” and is the key to relationship
inception and development.
 To construct positive images, individuals selectively
provide information about them and carefully cater this
information in response to others feedback.
 Anything posted online should be considered “public” no
matter what our privacy settings are.
 PERSONAL IDENTITY is the interpersonal level of self
which differentiates the individual as unique from others,
 while SOCIAL IDENTITY is the level of self whereby the
individual is identified by his or her group membership.
He explained that sharing ourselves is no longer new and
has been a practiced as soon as human beings were formed.
 Facebook
 Twitter
 Instagram
 YouTube
 Blogs
 Flickr
 Photobucket
 Etc.
 Digital devices help us share information
broadly, more than ever before.
 Facebook and other social media
application are now a key part of self
presentation for one sixth of humanity.
 As a result researchers and participants
become concerned with actively
managing identity and reputation and to
warn against the phenomenon of
“oversharing”.
 People become unaware of the extent of
information they share online.
 They forgot to delineate what can be
shared online and what should not.
 It gives people an idealized view of how
they would like to be remembered by
others.
 Some share even more intimate details with their partners
like their passwords. This could be an act of intimacy and
trust or the ultimate expression of paranoia and distrust
with the partner.
 Compulsively checking the
newsfeeds and continually
adding tweets and postings in
order to appear active and
interesting.
 People like to remain updated and they keep on sharing
themselves online because it adds a sense of self
confidence at their end especially if others like and shared
their posts.
 The resulting disinhibition causes people to believe that
they are able to express their “true self” better online than
they ever could in face-to-face contexts.
 But this doesn't mean that there id a “self” - the self is still a
work on progress
 Confessing our secrets and truths online feels freeing, even
if it binds us in guilt-motivated self-governance born of
along history of Christian and pre-Christian philosophies
and power structure.
 Confession, along with contemplation, self examination,
learning, and writing self-critical letters to friends, are a
part of the “technologies of the self” through which we
seek to purge and cleanse ourselves.
Ellaine Joy Orcullo
 According to Marwick, the terms
“SEX”, “GENDER”, and
“SEXUALITY” are often thought to
be synonymous, they are actually
 Is the biological state that corresponds to what we might
call a “man” or a “woman”.
 Often explained as biological, fixed, and immutable, but it
is actually socially constructed.
 Is the social understanding of how sex should be
experienced and how sex manifest behavior, personality,
preferences, capabilities, and so forth.
 A socioculturally specific set of norms that mapped onto a
category of “sex”
 A person with male sex organs is expected to embody a
masculine gender.
 It is produced by media and popular culture.
 It is taught by families, schools, peer group, and nation
states.
 It is reinforced through songs, sayings, admonition, slang,
language, fashion, and discourse, and it is deeply
ingrained.
 is a system of classification that
values male gendered things
more than female related things.
Given this inequality, the
universalized “male” body and
experience is often constructed
as average or normal, while
female-gendered experiences
are conceptualized as variations
from the norm.
 Is an individual expression and understanding of desire.
 While like gender, this is often viewed as binary
(homosexual or heterosexual), in reality, sexuality is often
experienced as fluid.
Nieves Genovia
 Conceptualized gender as a performance.
 She explained that popular understandings of gender and
sexuality came to be through discourse and social
processes.
 She argued that gender is performative.
 Performances that adhere to normative understanding of
gender and sexuality are allowed, while those that do not
are admonished.
 Internet users are free to actively chose which
gender or sexuality they are going to portray
with the possibility of creating alternate
identities.
 The ability of users to self-consciously adapt
and play with different gender, breaking
down binaries and encouraging fluidity in
sexuality and gender expression.
 Have led to the emergence of “free culture” where
individuals are empowered to engage in cultural
production using raw materials, ranging from
homemade videos to mainstream television
characters to create new culture, memes, and
humor.
 At its best, this culture memes, mash-ups, and
creative political activism allows for civic
engagement and fun creative acts.
 Both women and women use Wikipedia, 87% Wikipedia
contributors were defined as male. Male students are more
likely to create, edit, and distribute digital video over
YouTube or Facebook than female students.
 The Pew Internet and American Life Protect found no
discernible differences in user generated content by
gender except remixing, which was most likely among teen
girls.
 Researchers have consistently shown
similar numbers of numbers of men and
women maintain a blog – about 14% of
Internet users.
 While the number of male and female
bloggers is roughly equivalent, they tend to
blog about different things.
 Certain types of blogs are written and read
by women (food, fashion, parenting), while
others (technology, politics) are written and
run by men.
Myla Saludes
1. Is this post /story necessary?

2. Is there a real benefit to this post? Is this funny,

warm-hearted, teachable or am I just making noise
online without purpose?

3. Have we resolved this issue?

- An issue that is still being worked out at home, or
one that is either vulnerable or highly emotional,
should not be made public.
4. Is it appropriate? Does it stay within the boundaries
of our family values?
5.Will this seem as funny in 5, 10, or 15 years? Or
is this post better suited for sharing with a small
group of family members? Or maybe not at all?
Stick to safer sites.
Guard your password.
Limit what you share.
Remember that anything you put 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.
Be patient.