Dear Jessie Goffman is used in many studies and have been reworked into new frameworks e.g. Meyrowitz and his No sense of space but is also used in studies of Usenet Newsgroups reat this one: Judith S. Donath 1998. Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community Prepared for: Kollock, P. and Smith M. (eds). Communities in Cyberspace. London: Routledge. http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/Judith/Identity/IdentityDeception.html But there are also studies of Nicks in IRC try these: Bechar-Israeli, H. 1995. From (Bonehead) to (cLoNehEAd): Nicknames, play and identity on Internet relay chat. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication [On-line], 1 (2). http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol1/issue2/bechar.html Danet, Brenda 2002b: "Play, Art and Ritual on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) , in pre-publication version. An abridged version was presented at the Third Annual Meeting, Association of Internet Researchers, Maastricht, the Netherlands, October, 2002. http://atar.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msdanet/papers/ritplay.pdf Also Turkle and Gergen has something to say about identity, but if you realy want to make some work about the social construction of identity you could read some of NIKlas Luhmanns work Best Regards Jesper Tække Meng Ma wrote:
Hello All,
My advisors and I are conducting research on the identity management of online community members. I find some posts in this list very interesting and relevant. For example, last week or so, somebody posted a discussion regarding how people pick their nicknames online. We are studying various ways people manage (or negotiate) their identities and present themselves as who they are in the cyberspace. We are not able to find too much academic research in this area besides old works from Goffman and some social psychologists. So I think maybe I can post here and see if some colleagues have similar interests and/or can give some advice.
Also, we developed an online survey for our study. If interested, anyone is welcome to fill it out while we conducting a pilot test. Here is a link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=6415601545
Sorry to bother those who are not interested.
Thank you! _____________________ Jessie Meng Ma, PhD Candidate DIT, R.H.Smith School of Business University of Maryland, College Park.
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