Managing Multiple Identities to Combat Stigmatisation in the Digital Age

Tom Feltwell; Shaun Lawson; Benjamin John Kirman; John Vines

Managing Multiple Identities to Combat Stigmatisation in the Digital Age

Tom Feltwell, Shaun Lawson, Benjamin John Kirman, John Vines

Theatre, Film, TV and Interactive Media

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abstract

It has long been identified that people consciously
curate, manage and maintain multiple online individual
identities based on characteristics such as race, gender,
and societal status; research has also established that
people may choose to emphasise one such identity
other another as a means to avoid stigmatisation,
discrimination and stereotyping. The rise of online
state, corporate, and peer surveillance however
threatens to disrupt this process by modelling,
categorising and restraining identity to that which has
been surveilled. We posit that new anti-surveillance
tactics may emerge that allow users the freedom to
manage and switch their identities in ways that seek to
maintain social justice and counteract discrimination.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Workshop on Everyday Surveillance
Subtitle of host publication	ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2016
Publication status	Published - 7 May 2016

Access to Document

everydaysurveillance
Copyright retained by authors.

Cite this

@inproceedings{513880250afe418e9b3ca667b610c12f,

title = "Managing Multiple Identities to Combat Stigmatisation in the Digital Age",

abstract = "It has long been identified that people consciouslycurate, manage and maintain multiple online individualidentities based on characteristics such as race, gender,and societal status; research has also established thatpeople may choose to emphasise one such identityother another as a means to avoid stigmatisation,discrimination and stereotyping. The rise of onlinestate, corporate, and peer surveillance howeverthreatens to disrupt this process by modelling,categorising and restraining identity to that which hasbeen surveilled. We posit that new anti-surveillancetactics may emerge that allow users the freedom tomanage and switch their identities in ways that seek tomaintain social justice and counteract discrimination.",

author = "Tom Feltwell and Shaun Lawson and Kirman, {Benjamin John} and John Vines",

year = "2016",

month = may,

day = "7",

language = "English",

booktitle = "Proceedings of Workshop on Everyday Surveillance",

}

TY - GEN

T1 - Managing Multiple Identities to Combat Stigmatisation in the Digital Age

AU - Feltwell, Tom

AU - Lawson, Shaun

AU - Kirman, Benjamin John

AU - Vines, John

PY - 2016/5/7

Y1 - 2016/5/7

N2 - It has long been identified that people consciouslycurate, manage and maintain multiple online individualidentities based on characteristics such as race, gender,and societal status; research has also established thatpeople may choose to emphasise one such identityother another as a means to avoid stigmatisation,discrimination and stereotyping. The rise of onlinestate, corporate, and peer surveillance howeverthreatens to disrupt this process by modelling,categorising and restraining identity to that which hasbeen surveilled. We posit that new anti-surveillancetactics may emerge that allow users the freedom tomanage and switch their identities in ways that seek tomaintain social justice and counteract discrimination.

AB - It has long been identified that people consciouslycurate, manage and maintain multiple online individualidentities based on characteristics such as race, gender,and societal status; research has also established thatpeople may choose to emphasise one such identityother another as a means to avoid stigmatisation,discrimination and stereotyping. The rise of onlinestate, corporate, and peer surveillance howeverthreatens to disrupt this process by modelling,categorising and restraining identity to that which hasbeen surveilled. We posit that new anti-surveillancetactics may emerge that allow users the freedom tomanage and switch their identities in ways that seek tomaintain social justice and counteract discrimination.

M3 - Conference contribution

BT - Proceedings of Workshop on Everyday Surveillance

ER -