last week i hit the proverbial wall. in other words, writer’s block. i did not have enough background knowledge in the area of identity to really know what i was talking about. so i closed my office door, inadvertently put the printer into overdrive and searched and read lots of information. there are some really interesting and good sources on online identity. here are a few of the ones i found most useful…

Viviane Serfaty
The Mirror and the Veil: An overview of American Online Diaries and Blogs.
(I think there are some glaring generalities in parts of the ‘what is a blog’ section, but some brilliant comparisons as well. Worth reading)

Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner
The Way we think
(my guidebook…chapter on identity and character was indispensable)

Fernanda Viegas
Bloggers’ expectations of Privacy and Accountability: An Initial Survey
(quite interesting and a lot of good quotable stuff on the nature of perceived privacy and identity)

CMC: Social Interaction and the Internet: Online Identity
(very textbook like but a good overview and gave me resources where I could delve a bit deeper into these issues)

and of course, the book i want to read now…
Philosophy in the Flesh : The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
by the amazing by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson