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Closing Panel

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Social Computing and Online Identity

Organizer: Wendy A. Kellogg , IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Panelists:

Amy Bruckman, Georgia Tech
Scott Counts, Microsoft Research
Thomas Erickson, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Cliff Lampe, Michigan State University

Abstract:

Social computing systems gather, store, process, re-present, and disseminate social information, which is distributed across social collectivities such as teams, communities, organizations, and populations. A central hallmark of social computing is the identity of users: it is not just data about an identity that matters, but to whom data belongs, and how the owner's identity is related to other identities in the system. In many online environments, resources for constructing and maintaining identity create affordances for social factors such as self-presentation, expression, deception, and deviant behavior. Panelists will offer a variety of perspectives on issues of online identity as they have played out in a variety of recent social computing systems.