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Charlie Harry Smith
@charliehrysmith
Political theorist at @OIIOxford 🏛️ Researching UK #digitalidentity for an @ESRC/@BalliolOxford DPhil 🎓 Social Media Manager @OpenIDExchange 🆔 Total aphant
Sep 1, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
My chapter (from a collection edited by @chrisdburr & @Floridi) is now online 🥳 link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

TL;DR: stop talking about 'digital identities' on social media. They're really 'corporatised identities', designed to monetise and shape our online interactions.

🧵[1/6] To justify introducing this new 'corporatised identities' neologism, I start the chapter by discussing the two ways in which we can express ourselves on social media. Specifically, I distinguish @zephoria's 'digital performances' from @blurky's 'digital artefacts'.

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