[Air-L] Blizzard Forums will soon display real name

live human.factor.one at gmail.com
Thu Jul 8 14:31:58 PDT 2010


Love what you stated here.
Very similar to what Bonnie Nardi of UC Irvine stated in a new blog  
post:
http://umichpress.typepad.com/university_of_michigan_pr/2010/07/bonnie-nardi-is-author-of-my-life-as-a-night-elf-priest-a-new-book-on-the-culture-and-gameplay-in-the-international-bestsell.html

On Jul 8, 2010, at 8:31 AM, David Jones wrote:

> I've grown more and more concerned about the power of companies like
> Facebook or Blizzard to dictate what constitutes "identitity" and  
> how people
> manage their online personas. Mark Zuckerberg has used the rhetoric of
> "openness" and "integrity" to push Facebook's default stance of  
> making their
> participants' data public. There are all sorts of scary questions  
> about a
> company like Facebook deciding it has the right -- even the ethical
> obligation -- to determine what constitutes an online identity.




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