The document discusses how our identities are shaped and expressed through digital media. It notes that online we have multiple facets and selves that are amplified and networked more than ever before, bringing both opportunities and vulnerabilities. It explores how digital selves are public, social, and potentially economic, and argues that what matters most is the kind of citizen we choose to be through our online interactions and representations.

1. Who are We when We're Online?
How Self Works in a Digital Medium

2. Ourselves

3. Always Multiple
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thelotuscarroll/6842167375/

4. Always Facets

5. The Infinite Selves of the
Blank Screen
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamison/3669034513/

7. ...So I turned myself to face me
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thuanygabriela/4754591985/

8. The digital medium
amplifies & quantifies & networks us
like never before
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frank_wuestefeld/4535211481/

9. Why does this matter?

10. 1. We have possibilities like never before.

11. 2. We are vulnerable like never before.

12. The Digital = a Reputational Space
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8113246@N02/7932198032

13. Digital Selves = Public

Aware of being
watched

Aware of scale of
attention

Builds identity by
repetition

Build ties by visible http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfgangfoto/2755774089/
communications

14. The Digital = a Social Space
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cjnzja/2525350443

15. Digital Selves = Networked
 We Connect
 We Cultivate
 We Curate
 We Control?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/7153872159/

16. The Digital = an Economic Space?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8113246@N02/7932198032/

17. Digital Selves = By the Numbers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rachubarama/4124709187

18. There are many currencies in
social media

19. Monetization is NOT the divide
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdemory/540976004/

20. What is?

21. The kind of citizen we choose to be.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oter/2692986119/

22. The Digital = Just us, Extended

23. http://www.flickr.com/photos/areyoumyrik/289116861/
Online, we are ourselves, wired together.

24. Be the self you want to encounter
online.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dimasmotion/2964792950

25. Thank you.
@bonstewart
http://theory.cribchronicles.com