The Digital Divide Identity Crisis and They Call Me Cyber Boy

Identity Crisis:
This is a study about culture and flexibility. Online personas are a great way to have multiple personalities, giving people outlets to express the many sides they have to themselves. "Each reality of self gives way to reflexive questioning, irony, and ultimately the playful probing of yet another reality" This was a quote I found interesting. With each personality we can create online we are working on creating another reality for ourselves. Your online decisions, posts, likes and dislikes create an identity that people can judge. This information could be its own identity as well as many additional identities on and outside of the Web. This is the issue the web poses for identity. It's vast ability to allow multiple personas devalues a person's true identity.
They Call Me Cyber Boy:
This article disuccses how the cyber world came about. Mostly, he speaks of drugs and hippy movements that drove them to remain such a free thinking community, but he also describes how it changed the world of business. He was criticized for his cyber-self once and now is praised and questioned about his ingeniousness.

Links:
http://www.biography.com/people/steve-jobs-9354805
http://www.well.com/

Discussion Questions:


Do you think we would have the online technological world we have today without the drug use that went on in the process of creating it?Is it Christian to have multiple identities online?

What are the ethics and moral issues that deals with the identity crisis?

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