Comments on: Are you a different personality online? http://rickwest.edublogs.org/2006/09/29/are-you-a-different-personality-online/ Bloggin' about many things, but for right now I am talking about Online Learning Research in preparation for a BlogTracks presentation at AECT Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:07:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Administrator http://rickwest.edublogs.org/2006/09/29/are-you-a-different-personality-online/#comment-19 Administrator Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:11:05 +0000 http://rickwest.edublogs.org/2006/09/29/are-you-a-different-personality-online/#comment-19 Hi Jason! Yes, you're right. I'm actually just reading that section of Etienne Wenger's 2002 Communities of Practice book where he talks about negotiating identities and how identities vary depending on the community of practice, and since we are all engaged in multiple communities, we have multiple identities that we negotiate into one grand "general" identity. I think this would be more interesting to study. In fact, I was thinking it might be interesting to look at "purposive" identity formation. In other words, can I enter a community with the goal of developing a certain kind of identity, or character, and then leverage the community to attain this? Anyway, it's something I'm thinking about more right now. Hi Jason! Yes, you’re right. I’m actually just reading that section of Etienne Wenger’s 2002 Communities of Practice book where he talks about negotiating identities and how identities vary depending on the community of practice, and since we are all engaged in multiple communities, we have multiple identities that we negotiate into one grand “general” identity. I think this would be more interesting to study. In fact, I was thinking it might be interesting to look at “purposive” identity formation. In other words, can I enter a community with the goal of developing a certain kind of identity, or character, and then leverage the community to attain this? Anyway, it’s something I’m thinking about more right now.

]]> By: womi http://rickwest.edublogs.org/2006/09/29/are-you-a-different-personality-online/#comment-18 womi Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:40:51 +0000 http://rickwest.edublogs.org/2006/09/29/are-you-a-different-personality-online/#comment-18 Hi Rick, You may want to check out some of the literature for sociology and (more close to home) situated learning. You'll find a lot of really cool stuff about how the concept of personal identity is wrapped up very tightly with one's environment. In other words, you are a different person when you are speaking Spanish, using IM to communicate, etc. In fact, you're a different person at work than you are at school than you are at home than you are at church. To make a random Seinfeld reference, there really was a "relationship George" and a "independent George," and bringing the two together really would have killed independent George. Hi Rick,

You may want to check out some of the literature for sociology and (more close to home) situated learning. You’ll find a lot of really cool stuff about how the concept of personal identity is wrapped up very tightly with one’s environment. In other words, you are a different person when you are speaking Spanish, using IM to communicate, etc. In fact, you’re a different person at work than you are at school than you are at home than you are at church. To make a random Seinfeld reference, there really was a “relationship George” and a “independent George,” and bringing the two together really would have killed independent George.

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