danah boyd, Michele Chang and Elizabeth Goodman are running a workshop in Chicago, Nov. 6, on Representations of Digital Identity:

This workshop will address the many ways by which online presentations of self have been — and could be — constructed. In the absence of the body as a source of accountability and social legibility, individuals project a sense of self through multiple layers of mediation, including email addresses, graphic avatars, “friend lists,” and results from search engines. How can we use the body in a mediated world? Or alternately, how can we promote rich modes of interaction that do not rely on the illusion of physical presence?

Great topic and one we ought to get some clarity about before we charge down that other road called “digital identity.” It’s not as if our culture has done such a great job understanding the way being embodied affects who we are.

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