Contructing Identity Online : Who Are You ?

AS the require of the identity used on internet. I register some online  identities as for my convenience. I have about 6 online identities, such as MSN, Facebook, Hotmail, LN student ID, xanga and Yahoo. As a wise net user, I actually didn't use my real identity, there are some differences bwtween my real identity and the online identity. For example, I use different personal data of those online identities, such as name, birthday, address and telephone number etc. Also, I didn't use my own real photo and some times the gender.


There are some benefits the online idetity give itself. Such as I can use the online identity to meet more friends, to make the conection with friend even more easy and convenience, to express myself and let other know more about me. And the most important thing is that I can use the online identity for shopping in the internet, that provides a great convenience for me, it helps to save time and spending.


Of course, a coin has two sides, online identity also has its drawback and causing risks. Once we put all our personal imformation online, we would  face the risk of being steal privacy by the hacker. Sometimes, we may face cyber bully of receiving disturbance. We would loss online property, such as the game property of weapon and money. I always receive some advertising which causing disturbance and virus.

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Mouchette

Description

Mouchette is a digital art work that explore identity. Visitors to the site are greeted with a lurid close-up of a flower, its petals crawling with ants and flies, accompanied by a portrait of a sad-looking girl and the following text: "My name is Mouchette/I live in Amsterdam/I am nearly 13 years old/I am an artist." There are different sections of the web page, the web was designed in a strange way with its special color, images, sound and composition. Each web page is design with a strange picture, such as images of raw meat or sexually suggestive (a tongue licking the screen). Many pages feature interactive Web forms, including multiple-choice questions that trigger delayed-reaction e-mail. The images were full of intensive colors, such as bright red, green, pink and yellow etc. I feel uneasy and weird toward the web-page. I think the artist was too expressive. The work has been regarded as done by a 13 years old girl. But many people think it wasn't done by such a young girl. So the identity of the artist was still a mystery !

The work is controversial

The work is controversal sinces it provokes heated reactions to its portrayal of child sexuality and to the way it constructs and manipulates identity online. It arouse lots of critics and arguement around the web-site. At the same time it also arouse different artist to follow on it's way, there are many we-sites tobe set up as the membership of Mouchette.

 ref : https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/Mouchette