Mediaobjectnikosssss
users profile
a collection of settings and metadata---
profile-portrait-profiling user
as a linguistic construction that mediates what we think we are/how we present and understand ourselves
//== opposed to users account as a public expression of it. steve-this is imposed by protocols.
design model- database
user profile is a visual display of personal data associated with a specific user, or a customized desktop environment. A profile refers therefore to the explicit digital representation of a person's identity. A user profile can also be considered as the computer representation of a user model.
See also Online identity [wikipedia]
Your user profile is a collection of settings that make the computer look and work the way you want it to. It contains your settings for desktop backgrounds, screen savers, pointer preferences, sound settings, and other features. User profiles ensure that your personal preferences are used whenever you log on to Windows.
A user profile is different from a user account, which you use to log on to Windows. Each user account has at least one user profile associated with it.
[microsoft]
user profiles in operating systems user profiles in social networking user profiles in web2.0 services sites
sources
wikipedia -user profile
microsoft-user profile
Olia lialina lecture-What Was the User?
Olga g lecture-
brenda laurel computers as theatre
Bush-AWMT
Olia lialina and dragan es. Do you believe in users?in digital folklore reader
Olia lialina-turing complete user lecture, The General Purpose User
Lev Manovich, How do you call a person who is interacting with digital media?
Don Norman, Words Matter. Talk About People: Not Customers, Not Consumers, Not Users
Dan Gillmore, we the media