[Air-l] Research on identity communication in online communities

[jespert]

Dear Jessie

Goffman is used in many studies and have been reworked into new 
frameworks e.g. Meyrowitz and his 
No sense of space
 but is also used 
in studies of Usenet Newsgroups reat this one:

Judith S. Donath 1998. Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community
Prepared for: Kollock, P. and Smith M. (eds). Communities in Cyberspace. 
London: Routledge. 
http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/Judith/Identity/IdentityDeception.html

But there are also studies of Nicks in IRC try these:

Bechar-Israeli, H. 1995. From (Bonehead) to (cLoNehEAd): Nicknames, play 
and identity on Internet relay chat. Journal of Computer-Mediated 
Communication [On-line], 1 (2). 
http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol1/issue2/bechar.html

Danet, Brenda 2002b: "Play, Art and Ritual on IRC (Internet Relay 
Chat)
, in pre-publication version. An abridged version was presented at 
the Third Annual Meeting, Association of Internet Researchers, 
Maastricht, the Netherlands, October, 2002.
http://atar.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msdanet/papers/ritplay.pdf

Also Turkle and Gergen has something to say about identity, but if you 
realy want to make some work about the social construction of identity 
you could read some of NIKlas Luhmanns work

Best Regards
Jesper Tække


Meng Ma wrote:

>Hello All,
>
>My advisors and I are conducting research on the identity management of
>online community members. I find some posts in this list very interesting
>and relevant. For example, last week or so, somebody posted a discussion
>regarding how people pick their nicknames online. We are studying various
>ways people manage (or negotiate) their identities and present themselves
>as who they are in the cyberspace. We are not able to find too much
>academic research in this area besides old works from Goffman and some
>social psychologists. So I think maybe I can post here and see if some
>colleagues have similar interests and/or can give some advice.
>
>Also, we developed an online survey for our study. If interested, anyone is
>welcome to fill it out while we conducting a pilot test. Here is a link:
>
>http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=6415601545
>
>Sorry to bother those who are not interested.
>
>Thank you!
>_____________________
>Jessie Meng Ma, PhD Candidate
>DIT, R.H.Smith School of Business
>University of Maryland, College Park.
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