online identity

Negotiating multiple identities on the social web: Goffman, fragmentation and the multiverse

by corinnew November 16, 2011

(This is a keynote presentation I delivered at this year’s webCom Montréal) Let me start off with a confession: I have multiple personas. No, not multiple personalities! I have multiple personas. And I’m pretty sure you do too! Erwin Goffman, the famous Canadian sociologist once observed that when we interact with others, we enter a stage […]

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Who controls your online identity? Study suggests it may not be you.

by corinnew February 17, 2009

Here’s a summary of a study I discussed in my Interpersonal Communication class last week. The study examined the question of whether or not our Facebook friends influence the way other people perceive us online. The findings indicate that on social networking sites, our friends may indeed participate in the construction of our online identities. […]

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Resources on blogging etiquette, personal branding, and online identity management

by corinnew August 26, 2008

Today was the first day of the fall semester and soon the students in my social media class will begin blogging. For a lot of them, it will be their first time to do so. To help them get ready to enter the blogosphere, I have compiled a number of resources which I thought would […]

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