Module 3.4 THE DIGITAL SELF Flashcards
The amount of time adolescents/teens spend online can have both a positive and a negative outcome. (Sandrock, 2014)
With this influx of the digital technology, a new version of the self is formed.
The digital self
The Philippines is the fastest-growing market of smartphones in the __ based on a report of a market research company.
ASEAN
About __ million smartphones were shipped to the country in the first quarter of 2016.
3.5
Currently about __% of all Filipinos are smartphone users and that is projected to increase in the next years
30
defined as those capabilities possessed by individuals who are living, learning and working in a digital society.
DIGITAL LITERACY
the lack of restraint one feels when communicating online in comparison to communicating in-person
ONLINE DISINHIBITION
2 categories of online disinhibition
Benign disinhibition
Toxic disinhibition
The disinhibition that indicates attempt to understand and explore oneself, to work through problems, and find new ways of being.
Benign Disinhibition
describes behavior that includes rude language,
threats, and visiting places of pornography, crime and violence on the internet, places the person might not go to in real life
Toxic Disinhibition
Bullying that takes places using electronic technology.
Cyberbullying
the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to harass, control, manipulate or habitually disparage someone. It is the adult form of cyber bullying
Cyber Harassment
• Don’t post or send anything you would be embarrassed for certain others to see.
• Do be careful about over-sharing.
• Don’t hang out with the “wrong crowd” online.
• Do consider your emotional state before virtually posting or responding to anything.
• Do consider the reaction individuals are expecting from toxic disinhibition.
• Do search for yourself online
Managing Online Disinhibition
Refers to anything that describes a persona an
individual presents across all digital spaces that he/she is represented in.
Digital Identity (DI)
Express one’s identity to others and helps them make sense of it themselves.
Symbolic Markers
refers to the identity, soul or spirit separate
from physical body.
Internet disembodiment
lets a person associate a persistent ID for a single user with that user’s engagement data from one or more sessions initiated from one or more devices.
User ID
a unique sequence of characters used to identify a user and allow access to a computer system, computer network, or online accou
Username
When a person thinks that it is all just a game and believes that when he/she leaves online everything he/she did will all be gone. A make-believe dimension.
Dissociative Imagination
A notion that it’s only in their heads or minds. When people don’t know what a virtual person looks or sounds like, people tend to assign traits to those individuals which is an imaginary interaction with the introjected character
Solipsistic Introjection
A person can have no name or at least not
the real name. People don’t have to own their behavior by acknowledging it within the full of context of who “they” really are
Dissociative Anonymity
The development of the person’s social aspects can be greatly influenced by technology due to an ____ amount of real life social encounters (Diaz, Evans and Gallagher, 2014)
insufficient
Based on an analysis of teenagers’ online experience, studies showed that ‘others’ on the internet constitute a distinctive “looking glass” that produces a “digital self” that differs from the
self offline
always leads to negative consequences. Even if
there are cases when social media negatively impacts users, it would be unfair if only technology would be blamed
Abuse of technology
The set of guidelines, rules or limits that a
person creates to identify reasonable, safe and permissible ways for people to behave towards them and how they respond in case
someone breaks these rules or oversteps limit
Personal boundaries
In many online environments people cannot see others. Nobody can judge the statements and images because of the cloak of ____. In the public mode, the post will be treated as open book.
invisibility
is also a gauge to misrepresent oneself. A man may
present himself as a woman or vice versa.
Invisibility
In virtual interactions, people cannot always be sure when/where someone is present. It gives courage to do things which cannot be done in ____ interactions
face-to-face
Is made up of both personal identity and social identity.
Identity
is usually based on group affiliation.
Social Identity
In the modern era (enlightenment through 20th century), ___ is described as fixed, stable and unitary.
In post-modern (now), ___ is considered as fluid, multiple and socially constructed
Identity
Researchers have found that problem in behaviors often characterize highly _____.
masculine adolescents
hypothesis states that psychological and
behavioral differences between boys and girls become greater during early adolescence because of increased socialization pressure to conform to masculine and feminine gender roles (Santrock, 2014).
Gender intensification
True or False
In the study entitled, Gender Stereotype in Facebook Profiles: Are Women More Female Online?, the result showed that users present
themselves in a less gender stereotypical way online, and that women do so more than males alter self-presentation on Facebook influenced personal well-being, but to a negative effect on well-being
True
is explicitly portrayed in movies, TV shows, videos lyrics of popular music, MTV and internet sites.
Sex
According to ____ (2009), adolescents, not unlike adults, like to watch television programs with sexual content.
Hannesy
Another study by ___ in 2012 revealed that watching television sex can influence adolescents’ sexual attitude and behavior.
Researchers have shown that exposure to sexual content is elated to more permissive studies about premarital and recreational sex
(Hewstone, et al, 2015)
Ward
Another form is ___, which refers to sending, receiving, or forwarding sexually explicit messages, photographs or images, primarily between mobile phones. It may also include the use of a computer or any digital device
sexting
