On the early web, anonymity and pseudonymity
were both accepted and expected (Christopherson, 2007). Today, our social web
is a very different place, where users expect “authenticity” from one another (Lim
et al., 2015), and major social networking services are policed by strict “real
name” policies (Chen, 2018). Facebook, a social networking service with 2.5
billion monthly active users (Hutchinson, 2020), was an early implementer of real
name policy, and continues to use it to police users Read more [...]
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This paper is based on the analysis of Social media usage, in regarding
to the sharing of the content on Social platform like Facebook, its ethical
concerns and how it can strengthen ties within the users or general public.
Analysis of different aspect of ethical issues faced by the user is done along
what’s the possible or right way to share data or content without being
vulnerable to hackers or surveillance. Moreover, this paper future explains
how, by putting restriction, these Read more [...]
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Through Facebook as a Social
Networking Site, user’s identities are being altered and subverted as being
exposed to online platforms. Users, with online platforms, reimagined
themselves through the lenses of how they should be presented instead of how they
are in real spaces. This paper attempts to show the correlation between the concept of “ideal self” and
young adults’ self-representation on Facebook and whether popular culture
frames their notion of what is meant by an ideal Read more [...]
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The age of Web 2.0 technologies has led to greater scopes in developing one’s identity and sharing it to a larger audience online. It, however, has also allowed for the creation of online identities which facilitate the spread of deception and inauthenticity of a person’s identity. This essay sets out to examine how social media platforms and Web 2.0 technologies work to manufacture new Read more [...]
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The topic that I will be discussing through the conference will be based upon identity in communities and networks. The broad topic focuses on the identity of people in various social media platforms and communities on the web. According to Deng 1995 cited by Fearon 1999 Identity is described as the way in which individuals and groups define themselves and how they are defined by others based on race, ethnicity, religion, culture. On the other hand according to BE, 2011 a community Read more [...]