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===Definition===
 
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A fragmented, or distributed self is a term used to describe a self spread across many social, physiological, and physical channels. One aspect of a person may be present in one place, and another aspect elsewhere. One's roles on each site may differ depending on the shape of the site. One may be professional on a networking site and informal on another. Digital space affords the individual multiple identities and containers for those identities.  
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Sociologist Erving Goffman's ''Presentation of Self in Everyday Life'' points out that each person has different personas based on the situation and company they are in.<ref>Goffman, Erving. 1956. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.</ref> In the same way, digital space affords the individual multiple identities and containers for different parts of the self or social roles. A fragmented, or distributed self is a term used to describe a self spread across many social, physiological, and physical channels. One aspect of a person may be present in one place, and another aspect elsewhere. One's roles on each site may differ depending on the shape of the site. One may be professional on a networking site and informal on another. Taken together, one's distributed persona represents different aspects of the self for different parties.  
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Revision as of 00:26, 6 November 2011

Definition

Sociologist Erving Goffman's Presentation of Self in Everyday Life points out that each person has different personas based on the situation and company they are in.[1] In the same way, digital space affords the individual multiple identities and containers for different parts of the self or social roles. A fragmented, or distributed self is a term used to describe a self spread across many social, physiological, and physical channels. One aspect of a person may be present in one place, and another aspect elsewhere. One's roles on each site may differ depending on the shape of the site. One may be professional on a networking site and informal on another. Taken together, one's distributed persona represents different aspects of the self for different parties.

References

  1. Goffman, Erving. 1956. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.