One of the aspects of cultivating – and promoting – an online identity that interests me most is how the growing need for a “digital persona” for faculty, intersects with an increasingly neoliberal agenda for the university writ large. My social media presence includes two Facebook accounts, Twitter, and Instagram. Except for Twitter – which […]
Week 1 - Identity -Posts
If this is Blogging, then let’s have fun
Woah. I, like Neo, must have taken the red pill Morpheus offered when I clicked on the “+ New” but atop this WordPress blog site. ‘Cause now, I’m faced with a screen full of controls enough to fly a Space Shuttle (or the cool new touchscreen Crew Dragon they just took out for a spin […]
Juggling Digital identities in 2020
In real life (irl), I inhabit many roles: writer, teacher, son, partner, parental figure, friend, human. Online, I try to juggle, compartmentalize or erase some of these roles, and I’m sure I do so miserably. Most of this juggling happens unconsciously, depending in some part on the platform. On Facebook, where I am connected […]
Creating an Anti-Racist Digital Identity
I am a sociologist. I deeply believe in C. Wright Mills’ concept, the sociological imagination, which requires us to place our experiences in the history and biography of wider society. So, as I work to craft my digital identity in a thoughtful, intentional, and strategic way – with the help of #DigPINS resources – I […]
Context Collapse: At Last a Label for What I’ve Been Avoiding All This Time
I finally have a label for what I’ve been working so hard to avoid for the past twenty years. Context collapse. Of course I’ve read blogs, and use Facebook, and Twitter, and have established an identity of sorts in various online forums and in various online classes for a good twenty years. But I never […]
Do I Even Blog?
Well, I thought I’d start with a mini-post to begin exploring my digital identity and question whether this is something I want to do? Have to do? Or just do? I began last night by taking a picture of myself…..truth be told, I took a selfie and decided I didn’t like the reverse image of […]
