Identity

Robert W. Gehl's "'Why I Left Facebook'" (from Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch's "Unlike Us Reader" [Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2013)]) offers a mini-ethnography of English-language 'Why I Left Facebook' posts.

Inpsired by Gehl, this page summarizes a class project (PHIL 123, "Internet, Society, & Philosophy", University of Oregon, Winter 2014; Prof. Colin Koopman) that involved a short exercise in meditating on the virtues and vices of leaving Facebook behind and staying on Facebook.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9C046j_fZ8

Click the Link above to watch the finished video. Only people with the link can see it.

Here's our Project Charter:

Members:

• Chloe Cohen
• Colton McClincy
• Emily Hickey
• Raymond Henein
• Evan Bailey

Project Manager: Chloe Cohen

The internet was developed as a virtual world where you could exist behind a screen and no one could be sure who was on the other end. Now, an argument rages over whether anonymity should be allowed on the internet anymore. Encompassing the realms of privacy and publicness, the amount of anonymity a person has while existing behind their computer defines their internet identity. By extension, the amount of anonymity a person is given in any certain sphere of the internet allows opportunies for abuse, and changes exactly what the internet stands for.