Readings on Identity Basics

• Wikipedia entries on social science aspects of identity, online identity, and digital identity
• Weinberger, D. (2004). There's No "I" in Identity
• Udell, J. (2004). Always-on identity
• Crawford, S. (2003). Who’s in charge of who I am: Identity and law online (PDF).
• Dick Hardt's OSCON 2005 Keynote on Identity 2.0
• True Names, by Vernor Vinge

Readings on Online Identity

• boyd, d. (2006). Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace.
• Donath, J. (1999). Identity and Deception in the Online Community.
• Goffman, E. (1959). The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. "Introduction" (pp. 1-16) and "Performances" (pp. 17-76). Available through myCourses.
• Turkle, S. (1995). Life on the Screen. Chapters 8-10, Available through MyCourses.

Readings on Presentation of Self Online: Case Studies

• Kaycee Nicole
  • Hafner, K. (2001). "A Beautiful Life, an Early Death, a Fraud Exposed." New York Times, May 31.
  • Senft, T. (2001) "Debating Reality: An Online Hoax is Not a Pox." New York Times, June 14.
• Megan Meier
  • Maag, C. (2007). A Hoax Turned Fatal Draws Anger but No Charges. New York Times, November 26.
  • Zetter, K. (2007). Blog Readers Out Anonymous Adults that Newspaper Refused to Identify. Wired News.
  • "I am Lori Drew" - blog post.
• Ryan Jordan
  • Cohen, N. (2007). A Contributor to Wikipedia Has His Fictional Side. New York Times, March 5.
  • Essjay Controversy. Wikipedia, retrieved 12/2/07.

Readings on Technical Approaches to Managing Identity

• OpenID and the Identity Systems of Yahoo, Google & MSN
• Kim Cameron's The Laws of Identity
• What Designers Can Learn From Facebook’s Beacon: the collision of “fronts”
• What's Federated Identity Management?

Identity Management Implementation: Readings

• Pew Internet report on Digital Footprints
• Simon Willison Tech Talk on "The Implications of OpenID"

Readings on Community

• Tonnies, Ferdinand. (2001) Community and Civil Society. (Available via RIT's ebrary service; read book one, pages 17-91)
• Dunbar, R. I. M. (1993). Coevolution of neocortical size, group size and language in humans. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (4): 681-735.

Readings on Changing Community

• Putam, Robert D. (2000) Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon & Schuster. (Preface and Chapters 1, 8, 9 are all available in PDF via myCourses, or in hard copy from me in class on Tuesday)
• Oldenburg, Ray. (1999) The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community. 2nd edition. New York: Marlowe & Company. (Preface and Chapters 1-3 are all available in PDF via myCourses, or in hard copy from me in class on Tuesday)

Readings on Online Community

• Kollock, P., and Smith, M. 1999. "Introduction: Communities in Cyberspace." Pp. 3-25 in Communities in Cyberspace, edited by Marc Smith and Peter Kollock. London: Routledge Press, 1999.
• Ackerman, M., Huysman, M., Carroll, J. M., Wellman, B., DeMichelis, G., and Wulf, V. 2004. Communities and technologies: an approach to foster social capital?. In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 06 - 10, 2004). CSCW '04. ACM, New York, NY, 406-408.
• Shirky, C. 2003. A group is its own worst enemy.

Readings Applying Sociological Theory in Online Contexts

• Allen, C. 2004. "The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes."
• Allen, C. 2005. "Dunbar & World of Warcraft."
• Ducheneaut, N., Moore, R. J., and Nickell, E. 2007. Virtual "Third Places": A Case Study of Sociability in Massively Multiplayer Games. Comput. Supported Coop. Work 16, 1-2 (Apr. 2007), 129-166
• Shirky, C. 2002. Communities, Audience, and Scale.
• Shirky, C. 2004. "Two on the Monkey-Mind."

Readings (Watchings?) on Online Community Case Studies

The videos we watched in class today:

• Interview with Clay Shirky on privacy/identity issues
• 23C3 Talk by Joi Ito on WoW
• Clay Shirky at Supernova 2007

Readings on Politics (Laws and Governance) Online

• Burke, Timothy. (2004) Play of State: Sovereignty and Governance in MMOGs
• Malaby, Thomas. (2006). Control and Contingency Online
• Lastowka, Greg, and Hunter, Dan. (2004) The Laws of the Virtual Worlds
• Noveck, Beth. (2008) Wiki-Government (PDF file)