{"id":151,"date":"2009-05-29T14:29:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T14:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=151"},"modified":"2009-05-29T14:29:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T14:29:43","slug":"questions-of-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/questions-of-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions of identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of discussion recently about &#8216;digital identity, what it might mean, how we manage a host of multiple identities (or do we need to bother?) and the implications of having an enduring web presence. I&#8217;ve been particularly interested in the context of the characters people create in multi-users virtual and gaming environments, why they chose to represent themselves in the way they do and what this might mean for learning.<\/p>\n<p>Dave White wrote an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2009\/05\/26\/where-does-digital-identity-lead-to\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> recently, in which he suggests that we need to move beyond philosophical discussions of digital identity to consider &#8220;not what digital identity <em>is<\/em> but where it <em>leads<\/em>&#8220;. His argument being that it is the relationships and social interactions that having a digital identity facilitates that are interesting, not the identities in themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of discussion recently about &#8216;digital identity, what it might mean, how we manage a host of multiple identities (or do we need to bother?) and the implications of having an enduring web presence. I&#8217;ve been&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/questions-of-identity\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","category-thoughts","tag-digital-identity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-2r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}