PERSON AND PERSONALITY IN CYBER SPACE: A LEGAL ANALYSIS OF VIRTUAL IDENTITY (original) (raw)

ON HUMAN IDENTITY IN CYBERSPACE OF DIGITAL MEDIA

European Journal of Transformation Study, 2019

Human identity is not static but dynamic. It depends on somatic and cognitive development, culture and society. Human identity is now extending to cyberspace of digital media. According to Turkle, cyberspace acts as a mirror in which one can get to know one another. However, virtual identity is not entirely virtual because it is continually linked to real identity through cognitive functions and abilities. The author focuses on two risks of expanding identity in cyberspace of digital media, which are cybersex and narcissism. Narcissism and cybersex are two risks that currently endanger especially children and adolescents. Therefore society should pay particular attention to education. Media education, with special emphasis on critical thinking, is a necessity.

Legal boundaries of digital identity creation

Internet Policy Review

The internet has created possibilities to define human identity in a digital world. This entails the need to consider the impact of this new environment of identity's operation and the effects of possible differences. The authors analyse digital identity in terms of its relation with human identity derived from Article 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The paper's research goal is to specify the relation between digital identity and real identity, aiming in essence to provide an answer to the following research question: does the internet as the new sphere of identity's operation have such an effect that it created a need to specify a legal framework and methods of protection unique to digital identity? This study aims to specify legal tools for creating digital identity and the legal boundaries of the possible creation. Issue 1

Legal boudries of digital identity creation

Internet Law Review, 2021

The internet has created possibilities to define human identity in a digital world. This entails the need to consider the impact of this new environment of identity’s operation and the effects of possible differences. The authors analyse digital identity in terms of its relation with human identity derived from Article 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The paper’s research goal is to specify the relation between digital identity and real identity, aiming in essence to provide an answer to the following research question: does the internet as the new sphere of identity’s operation have such an effect that it created a need to specify a legal framework and methods of protection unique to digital identity? This study aims to specify legal tools for creating digital identity and the legal boundaries of the possible creation. Issue 1

Concept of Identity in Real and Virtual World

Literary Herald, 2019

Identity is an ambiguous term which has been used in many different context and purposes in recent years. The fundamental paradox of identity is in its meaning in Latin itself. The term in Latin root ‗idem', meaning-the same,‖ nevertheless implies both similarity and difference. Our identity is unique in one sense that it is what distinguishes us from other people. Yet on the other hand, identity also implies a relationship with a broader collective or social group of some kind like national identity, gender identity, or cultural identity, for example, we imply that our identity is partly a matter of what we share with other people in a society. The need for love and care is a basic need in human life. As people cannot get them easily in real world in the myriad of chaos and pretension, they travel to the virtual reality to have their needs fulfilled. The emotions and feelings one feel in the virtual world is as real as a human being can express and feel. This sense of gratification which human beings get from the virtual world becomes an addiction as time passes. But is it right or wrong to get that sense of gratification from a reality that does not exist? This paper attempts to address the issues created by mass media among the citizen of modern world.

The Construction of Identity in Digital Space

AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, 2018

The construction of personality and its development through time is influenced by many factors, and as particularly important from the aspect of this essay, we would stress the social factor as well as the influence of digital space and existence: the participation of the individual in the digital world. The emergence of new technologies and the acceleration of the pace of life significantly contributes to the construction of identities in digital space, based on a number of influences, such as: the possibility of a 'second life' , i.e. different presentation of oneself (of life) at the virtual level, an increase of social desirability, changing the perception of oneself and access to new acquaintances and experiences, and knowledge and information and selection of personal data. Digital identity opens the possibility of abuse and consequences. These include the circumstances of insufficient protection of privacy, discovery and illegal use of permanently memorized data in meta-media society and digital space, especially on social networks, and the possibility of manipulating and controlling the identity of another as well as the possibility of placement multiple identities, which brings questions the legitimacy of data. In addition to the fact that digital space has opened up possibilities for changing the way of life in all spheres, it seems that the most pronounced influence (both at the level of quality and quantity) is particularly visible on the changes in the design of the personal identity of the individual.

Cyber-Identities and Social Life in Cyberspace

Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies

Information and communication technology gradually transform virtual communities to active meeting places for sharing information and for supporting human actions, feelings and needs. In this chapter the authors examine the conceptual definition of virtual community as found in the traditional cyberliterature and extend it to accommodate latest cybertrends. Similar to the ways that previous social and mass media dissolved social boundaries related to time and space, cyber-communities and social software seem to also dissolve the boundaries of identity. This, in turn, questions the trust, privacy and confidentiality of interaction. The authors present a way of classifying and viewing self-presentation regarding cyber-identity management in virtual communities. It is based on the characteristics that cyber-surfers prefer to attribute to themselves and accordingly present themselves to others. In so doing, the authors coin the terms for five distinct phenomena, namely nonymity, anonymi...

Online identity

THESIS, Vol. 4, no. 2, 2015

Social media have become an arena of rapid dissemination of information, global communication, self-promotion, freedom of expression, but also hot debates and powerful tool of shaping identity. Identity is the concept socially attributed. Social media identity is regarded as "an extension of everyday life and cultural change tool." So, identity formation as a social concept is being transformed with new global methods. This transformation is happening thanks to social media. Social networking platforms enable the creation and placement of real or false identity in the virtual world. Online identity paper analyzes the creation of identity, motives that push individuals to create these identities, compares the creation of identities in the virtual and real world and the way of communication between users. Also addresses the problem of communication with anonymous users, with whom the impression of individual identity is explored.