Sandbox:Developing a Professional Profile/Research Object/Online Identity Overview

Internet Society - Manage Your Identity Online Identity Overview

The Internet Society engages in a wide spectrum of Internet issues, including policy, governance, technology, and development. This tutorial is part 1 of a 3 part series. Part 1 - Online Identity Overview, outlines the differences between your online and "real life" identity, recognize the nature of digital identities, and helps to foster an understanding between online identity and personal privacy.

How does data sharing affect your online identity? What is a partial identity and how does it characterize you online? How do identifiers connect the characteristics that make up your partial identity? This tutorial outlines the "invisible" ways you create an online identity. How do you think this form of online identity could affect the online identity you develop?

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