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August 16, 2004

CFP: Representations of Digital Identity (CSCW Workshop)

At Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) this year, i will be teaming up with two of my favorite colleagues (Michele Chang and Liz Goodman) to organize a workshop called "Representations of Digital Identity.". We want to bring together interesting people working on how people represent and manage identity in a digital environment. We are looking for designers, technologists, theorists and other invested individuals.

A workshop of this type is where people working on the same problems come together to brainstorm and tackle confounding issues. For this workshop, we are asking people to submit sketches representing digital identity and discuss those in the context of the issues that interest them the most.

If you're interested:
- Read the Call for Participation
- Check out the Proposal we submitted
- Ask questions or send submissions to cscw04-identity AT googlegroups DOT com by September 20

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Posted by zephoria at August 16, 2004 4:00 PM | TrackBack

Comments (3)

annonymous:

Armed with poetry
poets lurk
streets and shoes
skirts and sun
poets lurk
armed with poetry

with lyre and
rhythem
poets yell into a
sea of heads
bobbing across
concrete
below the
shadow of the
all seeing buildings

armed with poems poets lurk
inside large rooms
conventions and stalk
political
armed with poems
words as pierceing
bits of glass
upon the skin
of knowing

the redhead persona of
steping into a parade
as man
as women
as machine

hidden behind words
poets lurk until
the command of passion
and sapphic singing
lures to sleep
hidden words that hurt
biting into a self not
seen within a mirror
of reflections turned to words
knowing

that poets are armed with words...

Posted by annonymous | August 16, 2004 10:58 PM

Posted on August 16, 2004 22:58

Emilio:

This sounds fascinating! It is reminiscent of personal photography- albeit not in the interactive way that that digital medium allows a user to be represented- but photography (similar to the web) is also communication medium, pretty low-tech tool, available to the mass worldwide market very directly linked with the concept of Identity. So I can't help but think that we could also use more than a hundred year of cultural use of photography to help give us some understanding on how we will use these new tools to satisfy the similar human needs (assuming that our humanity has not changed since ;)

Some examples:
- Photo-mediated (Why do you prefer one picture of yourself over another one?)
- Display-mediated (Will the picture of your niece at the park end up framed and in your living room, held by a magnet on the fridge door, or in a shoe box?)
- Story/album-mediated (Is your vacation album as likely to include the group shot of seconds spent in front of an erupting Old Faithful, as much as the half-day spent dealing with the broken car on your way home?)

Posted by Emilio | August 18, 2004 12:13 PM

Posted on August 18, 2004 12:13