Who Are You in the Digital Age?

Our online identity deserves to be protected and made secure, and yet it is also a presence that we want to be seen. Where is the balance between protection and presence? We want to be involved in society while still maintaining our individuality. How can we be involved in the global identity without being swallowed by it? We have an opportunity to share opinions with the world, but we don’t want differing opinions to dissolve into pointless arguments. Where is the line separating crowdsourcing and fiendish feuds?

Securing Our Identities

More than ever before, our civilization uses digital technology for our most basic communicating needs. We are now creating WHO WE ARE online. While these wonderful ways of communicating online give us new means of creation, expression and individuality, we are being subjects for new dangers.


I believe that we have the right to have our online identities protected from unauthorized viewers.

Identity & The Social Media Barrier

I think it's fair to say it's one of the world's greatest tools for communicating with loved ones and reconnecting with people all over the world. Yet, even though social media may have risen from pure intentions, the world has found a way to abuse it's power and it puts the security of one's identity is at risk.

Tracking Our Digital Footprints

 

Hi! My name is Katelyn Dalton, and I'm a college student trying to learn how to market myself in a world where our digital footprints are beginning to define us.

The Other Lost Generation: Final

This is my trip to Butchart Gardens in British Columbia. It is a beautiful garden, but easy to get lost in.

We are constantly wandering through a digital wilderness that looks like this one. It is enticing, but very easy to get lost in. It is simple for one to wander aimlessly for hours through a beautiful garden such as this. It represents various forms of social media such as:

• Facebook

• Twitter

• Instagram

• Snapchat

We never really think about who created this digital wilderness. Who created the elaborate algorithms that we see in social media? Did they intend for us to find a purpose in this garden? 

Securing our Online Identities

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-The Caucus Mass-

This evening's experience at the Republican caucus was both enlightening and terrifying. I arrived 15 minutes before 7pm and the masses began to form around different parts of the tiny elementary school. My first observation was how many people of all walks of life were there, but especially students! I overheard a lot of them saying, "what's going on?" or, "what does this even mean?" It took at least 30 minutes to find the right line and then another 15 to get my ballot. You could tell that the true decorum of the event was taking all the staff by surprise because there were way more people than they expected to show up.

Identity: Who is Gideon Burton online?

Would you like to know who Gideon Burton is online??

Redefining how we define ourselves in the Digital Age: A Video Proposal

I have come to the conclusion over the past few months, through a process of discovery, that we can't and shouldn't move backwards. We are now in the Digital Age, and we're too hesitant to move forward with it because we see so many bad things about it. We're focusing in on the knots in our society and difficult things that take time to get past.

The way past this, I've come to realize, is forging a new IDENTITY. It's redefining how we define ourselves. We, as millennials, have that responsibility and that honor.

We're in an IDENTITY CRISIS! 

Be Aware of What You Post

Found on my Facebook Profile

In my Information Systems class this semester, we covered cyber security. Our assignment was to choose a partner in class and go onto every social media website you could to find every possible piece of information of their lives. Things such as Name, Age, Birthday, Hobbies.

Just from my pictures found on facebook what can you infer? I graduated highschool, I studied at BYU, I served a LDS mission and I am now married.

Our Society

The Other Lost Generation

We are constantly wandering through a digital wilderness that looks like this one. It is enticing, but very easy to get lost in. It is simple for one to wander aimlessly for hours through a beautiful garden such as this. It represents various forms of social media such as:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Snapchat
• Blogging 

This is my trip to Butchart Gardens in British Columbia. It is a beautiful garden, but easy to get lost in.

When Worlds Collide

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Perception is reality, and the way we communicate with each other dictates how we are perceived. As such, as communication changes, the way people see us may also change. In eras past, all your employer saw was your work ethic and quality, so that was how you were identified. The only people who knew you based off of your personal life was your family and friends-- work life and personal
life were two clearly distinct categories. It didn't much matter what decisions one made in their personal life, because those who they had business relationships with likely wouldn't see it. However, with the rise of social media and perpetual, prolific updates, these two worlds are edging closer and closer together.

Mass Culture vs. Individual Identity

Me: "Hey Kaz! how was school?" 

Kaz: "It was LIT." 

Me: "Huh?" 

Kaz: "Like class was sick ... nah mean? YEEEET."

Me "..." 

Kaz: "yeet... yeet?" 

Me: "USE YOUR GROWN UP WORDS!" 

Kaz: "I am?! #getonthislevel" 

Me: "" 

International Women's Day Every Day

My wife Maya and I on our wedding day. The media dictates women should fit a particular mold. If we work together, the media instead can be a force to strengthen female identity.

My wife has always planned on becoming a speech pathologist. Her older sister had speech impediments as a young girl, and my wife saw the benefits of the therapy her sister received. When she came to Brigham Young University, other girls thought her desire to graduate quickly and pursue her masters degree was odd and unconventional. "Don't you want to get married and have kids?" Obviously she does, but why do women need to choose one or the other? The answer is simple - they don't.

Mass Identity vs. Personal Identity: Are we Still Individuals?

"My name is Kotahi Tarawhiti, and I have a younger sister who adores social media ... But I often wonder how much of my 'sister' is still intact after using social media for so long. I believe that social media is turning individual and personal identities into more of a glob of people with similar 'likes' and 'followers'."