Katalin Fehér: Issues in Digital Identity

The presentation maps the complexity of issues in digital identity in the context of new media and online networks. The question is: what is the approach of users regarding digital footprints that they leave and keep behind. Data sets, digital data corpus, web-/application-/algorithm-/sensor-based activities, online representations, the traces of observation determine users’ digital identity assuming their communicative awareness and self-reflexive attitudes in online publicity. The centre of our investigation is the personal or social identity who disposes a strategy to manage digital footprints in surveillance culture. The goal of the presentation is to provide an overview of the phenomenon with its issues, in particular to emerging theories and results of a qualitative research.