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Stephen Downes

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Wes Fryer comments on a blog post by Allysia Doratti, Mirror, Mirror, On My Feed: Exploring Identity in a Digital World. The gist of that post and this is that "our online personas often reflect fragmented versions of ourselves. Instead of a single, cohesive identity, we become a series of digital personas, each tailored to fit the unique social and cultural dynamics of the platforms we use." I think this may be more cultural than technological; people following different feeds of mine get different content, but it's still the same basic personal underneath (and I wouldn't have it any other way). But what's important is that using different person allows people to express their identity in different ways.

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