DIGITAL SELF:

WHO I AM IN THE
CYBER WORLD?

JOSELITO IGLISIA
DANIELLA JASPIO
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Compare real
Define online identity
identity versus online
identity

Describe the Discuss the

influence of proper way of
demonstrating
internet on
values and
sexuality and attitudes
gender online
LESSON PROPER:
It has only been 25 years since Tim Berners - Lee
made the World Wide Web available to the public, but in
that time, the internet has already become an integral
part of everyday life for the most of the world's
population.
 Media users in the Philippines grew by 12 million or 25%
while the number of mobile social users increased by 13
million or 32%. Those growth figures are still higher
compared to the previous year. More than half the world
now uses a smartphone
WHAT IS ONLINE IDENTITY?
ONLINE IDENTITY
is actually the sum of our characteristics and our
interaction.
Online identity is also called as Internet Identity or
internet persona is a social identity that an internet user
establishes in online communicates and websites
REAL IDENTITY VS. ONLINE
IDENTITY
PARTIAL IDENTITY
It is a subset of characteristics that make up our
identity. Meanwhile persona is the partial identity we
create that represents ourselves in a specific situation

PERSONAL IDENTITY
It is the interpersonal level of self which is the
interpersonal level of self which
SOCIAL IDENTITY

It is the level of self whereby the individual is

identified by his or her group membership.
BELK (2013) explained that sharing ourselves is no
longer new and has been practiced as soon as human
being formed. Digital devices help us share information
broadly, now than ever before.
As Schwarz (2012) mentioned, we have entered an
extraordinary era of self-portraiture. Blogs and web
pages have been continually used for greater self-
reflection and self-presentation Facebook and other
social media application are now a key part of self-
presentation for one sixth of humanity.
Many teenagers, as well as adults, share even
more intimate details with their partners like
their passwords (Gershon 2010). This could be
an ultimate act of intimacy and trust or the
ultimate expression of paranoia and distrust
with partners. This condition has been called
"Fear of Missing Out".
One of the reason for so much sharing and self-
disclosure online is the so called "Disinhibition Effect”
(Ridley 2012: Suler 2004.) the lack of face-to-face
gaze-meeting, together with feelings of anonymity and
invisibility, gives people the freedom for self-disclosure
but can also “flame” others and may cause conflict
sometimes. The resulting disinhibition causes people to
believe that they are able to express their “true self”
better online than they ever could in face-to-face
context [Taylor 2002]. However, it does not mean that
there is a fixed “true self.”
The self is still a work in progress and we keep
on improving and developing ourselves every
single day. Seemingly self-revelation can be
therapeutic to others especially if it goes
together with self-reflection (Morris et al.
2010.)
“Who are you?”

“What do you have to

share?”
 Many of us share the bad, embarrassing and lustful
things we experience. We also react and comment on
the negative experiences of others. Sometimes we
empathize with people. We also argue w/ others online.
Relationships may be made stronger or broken through
posts online
 According to Foucault`s (1998) Confession
along with contemplation, self-examination,
learning, reading, and writing self- critical letters
to friends, are a part of the “ technologies of the
self” through which we seek to purge and cleanse
ourselves.
 Thus, we should have a filtering system to whatever
information we share online, as well as to what
information we believe in, w/c are being shared or posted
by others online. In the same way, we should also think
before we post or share in order to prevent conflict,
arguments, and cyber bullying and to preserve our
relationships w/ others.
GENDER AND SEXUALITY ONLINE

• What is…

SEX?
GENDER?
SEXUALITY?
SEX

It is the biological state that corresponds to what

we might call a “man” or a “woman”. While “sex” is
often explained as biological, fixed, and immutable, it
is actually socially constructed (West and Zimmerman
1987).
GENDER
It is the social understanding of how sex should be
experienced and how sex manifests in behavior,
personality. preferences, capabilities and so forth. A
person with male sex organs is expected to embody a
muscular gender.
SEXUALITY

It is an individual expression and understanding of

desire. While like gender, this is often viewed as binary
(homosexual or heterosexual), in reality, sexuality is
often experienced as fluid.
PERFORMING GENDER ONLINE

Theorist Judith Butler (1990) conceptualized gender

as a performance. She argued that gender was
performative in that it is produced through millions of
individual actions rather than something that comes
naturally to men and women.
 Social Media sites like Twitter and YouTube have led
to the emergence of a “free culture” where individuals
are empowered to engage to engage in cultural
production using raw materials, ranging from homemade
videos to mainstream television characters to create
new culture of memes, mash-ups, and creative political
activism allows for civic engagement and fun creative
acts.
SETTING BOUNDARIES TO YOUR
ONLINE SELF:

The ff. guidelines will help you share information online in a smart way
that will protect yourself and not harm others. Before posting or sharing
anything online, consider the ff.
1. Is this post / story necessary
2. Is there a real benefit to this post? Is it funny, warm-
hearted, teachable-or am I just making noise online without
purpose?
3. Have we (as a family or parent/ child) resolved this issue? An
issue that is still being worked out at home, or one that is
either vulnerable or highly emotional, should not be made public.
4. Is it appropriate? Does it stay within the boundaries of our
family values?
5. Will this seem as funny in 5, 10, 15 yrs.? Or is this post
better suited for sharing with a small group of family
members? Or maybe not at all?
RULES TO FOLLOW

Here are additional guidelines for proper sharing of information

and ethical use of the Internet according to New (2014)
Stick to safer sites
Guard your passwords
Limit what you share
Remember that anything you put online post on a site is
there forever, even if you try to delete it.
Do not be mean or embarrass other people online.
Always tell if you see strange or bad behavior online.
Be choosy about your online friends.
Be patient
Thank You