Eva Illouz, Facebook and the Crisis of the Multiple Self

The massive uptake of social networking sites such as Facebook has spurred an identity crisis of as-yet unknown proportions social networking and identity management culture of pseudonimity

Does data protection apply in the public sphere?

Can one shape policy while remaining anonymous?

anonymous commenting

What would become of the democratised self if the default was to make public who we voted for? Wouldn't that be the moment when the Self split to create a double? In a system that aims to prevent the outbreak of nonconformism, open personalities and fluid identities will only beget problems with the law. Most users are not comfortable with parallel existences anyway

Life in Screen. Turkle techno-libertarian utopia, Internet's first inhabitants, hyper-individualistic; Internet as a tool for personal freedom, web2.0 economy

The multiple Self is not seen as an act of liberation but is simply played out as a technological given .the Self is seen as a fundamental lie Left without a core, the personality is doomed to remain inside a neverending play