[Air-L] IRB and blogs

André Brock andre.brock at gmail.com
Sun Oct 17 17:13:58 PDT 2010


Just to complicate the matter even further:

The discussions of pseudonomizing [sic] bloggers and commenters has an added
piquancy for me, considering that on many of the racial and ethnic blogs i
examine, the author's choice of pseudonym often reflects a cultural or
personal identity.   I came to this conclusion before the rise of the social
networks, where many people employ the same username across multiple
platforms as populations migrate to keep up with their old friends or to
establish a consistent online presence/brand.  (or maybe they're like me,
where i use the same name across multiple platforms because i'm lazy LOL)

 Changing their chosen pseudonym, which unlike their given name or patronym
is actually a self-made identity, seems kind of arrogant.

Is it the case that the mainstream online communities you study don't have
any personal connection to their pseudonyms?  Are the names just nonsense
syllables chosen to satisfy arbitrary registration for membership in a given
community?

I'm curious; do those of you who change names to protect privacy consider
your change to be equally reflective of the OP's discursive identity choice?


Sorry for the disjointed logic...i'm still trying to recover from a workout.



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