High School Graduates Describe Four Types of Online Identities

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Authors

Koh Herlong, Walden University, United States ; Abbie Brown, East Carolina University, United States

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, Mar 21, 2016 in Savannah, GA, United States ISBN 978-1-939797-13-1

Abstract

The paper is a report on one of the findings of a study of 9 nine high school graduates on their perspectives on the creation of online identities. An unexpected result of the interviews was the organic emergence of the identification of four types of online identities generated by young adults ages 18 to 21: real, desired, enhanced, and deceptive. Parts of each type of identity support the current literature; however, this is the first realization of a spectrum of identities from deliberately honest to deliberately deceptive. Educators should consider this data when teaching technologies that involve online identities and when teaching digital citizenship.

Citation

Herlong, K. & Brown, A. (2016). High School Graduates Describe Four Types of Online Identities. In G. Chamblee & L. Langub (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 1079-1083). Savannah, GA, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 7, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/172326.

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