Sociology 3005 - Technology and Social Change

Found identity vs made identity
Found identity: indicators of identity you are born with, such as sex, race, socioeconomic class, the religion you are brought up in, etc
Made identity: aspects of your identity that you create as you grow and develop and find new role models and affinity groups
Commicating vs sharing vs gaming vs performing
Different ways of expressing an identity online; see Fake IDs
Sincerity, authenticity, profilicity
Three different ways of expressing an identity: sincerity is doing your best to match the social expectations of the categories people in your family and group attribute to you ("a faithful wife"); authenticity is showing a true unique inner self even if others don't like or affirm it ("I know you don't approve, but I am true to myself"); profilicity is a form of identity/identities that we express through our mediated self-presentations online; sometimes our identity varies depending on our audience, and we are trying to perform our identity for an abstract "public" many of whom we may not know IRL or may be more a "target audience" that we are imagining
"Image"
The aspect of our identity that is available publicly and largely through how we appear, in real life or via media
Deep Fakes
AI-generated video and still images that simulate someone in a way that is hard or impossible to distinguish from images of the real person