"These little pieces of identity function as Genes: they compose digital
DNA of an individual " Frédéric Cavazza
Digital Identity and Reputation
By reputation it addresses the larger problem of digital identity, a concept whose stakes are synthesized In this excerpt from a ticket Margarita Perez-Garcia, researcher in educational sciences, specializing in digital portfolios:
- In the current situation, each person has a digital representation of data scattered across hundreds of bases in data which it did not access, we could talk about digital identity exploded, uncontrolled by the person
- People have not realized the reality of the digital identity exploded and the need to take control of this representation
- People who became aware of the need to take control of their representation are overwhelmed by the diversity of information models and existing technology
- Finally, those wishing to build their digital representation must make an effort too great in view of the benefits achieved: the identity personal seems of no avail and is recognized by people
From the moment you expose yourself by your writing you are subject to hazards inherent to any form of communication: deformations of your comments, quotes out of context, position debatable ...
These elements can be used to exploit an attack on your reputation. Of course we must not fall into the paranoia and some topics are obviously more sensitive than others, but we must be aware that a media that flattens the discourse as the web, giving you the floor to the same extent as the columnist of a major newspaper, has its downside. Like the latter, you are now a public figure likely personal attacks, and why not, smear campaigns.
Perhaps what was not realized in the blog phenomenon, or more, in one of citizen journalism practiced by OhmyNews or Agoravox. Sure every blogger is legally responsible for his online writings and you could realize with the arrest of bloggers encouraging rioters in the suburbs.
Yet the main risk to reputation is likely in this capacity for harm to an individual or a community you might become a target. Even if I do not think this current situation on the web today, I would point the finger at this drift paradoxically made possible by means of free expression is the web. The reputation is as long to build it is fragile.
Excerpts from original article by Christophe Deschamps - Blogs.zdnet.fr
relevant Resources:
- The essential digital reputation management
- Evaluation of Internet information
- Do you have a name on the Web
- Cleaning your online reputation
- IBM monitors your online reputation
- "Wisdom of Crowds" lynching or online?
- Blogs and People's Courts
- you know your online reputation?
- How pamper your online reputation?
- Treat your digital me, your reputation precedes you
- Web-reputation digital identity & Google bombing
- Managing your online reputation
- It will bleed ... it's Beef
- Fred Cavazza: Digital identity in question
- What is digital identity?
- Reputation writings digital
- Digital identity, all the traces you leave on Internet
- Work your digital identity
- Internet will not forget you
- Do we still control our reputation?
- Succeed in Google bombing
- Wisdom of the Crowds "more the merrier merrier"
Your digital identity consists of all the information you sow
surfing the Web
To summarize these are the sites you surf, what you buy, what you say (in forums, blogs), what others say about you, what you share online (videos, bookmarks, photos ...)... Short! Anything that helps to know a little about yourself. In 15 minutes
Dick Hardt presents the concept of "Identity 2.0"
at OSCON 2005 - Open Source Convention
