Wednesday, September 24, 2008

AMS Group B(Helen, Joao, Jenna, Gargi) Definition (E-dentity) for TAM Group B

Keith Bennie's word:
'E-dentity', online identity, and digital identity were not found in any reputable dictionaries I consulted. These are the definitions I found that address the term I'm calling 'e-dentity'

Digital Identity: The electronic representation of a real-world entity. The term is usually taken to mean the online equivalent of an individual human being, which participates in electronic transactions on behalf of the person in question. However, a broader definition also assigns digital identities to organizations, companies, and even individual electronic devices.


Digital Identity: refers to the aspect of digital technology that is concerned with the mediation of people's experience of their own identity and the identity of other people and things. Digital identity also has another common usage as the digital representation of a set of claims made by one digital subject about itself or another digital subject.

Online Identity: is a social identity that network users establish in online communities. Although some people prefer to use their real names online, most Internet users prefer to identify themselves by means of pseudonyms, which reveal varying


E-dentity is separating yourself into two : self and e-self,
how clear is the devide between them? where is the line drawn?
Can e-dentity be defined as a borrowed identety?
Social/ e-scocial?

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