Online identity has to be the most common thing of the two-thousands. “Physical constraints such as body, biological sex, race or age can have profound effect on self- definition and self – presentation” (Collins & Kuczaj, 1991). Online identity is way of discovering the new “you.” It is what I like to call “your world,” you can present yourself the way you want others to imagine you as, and also say things to either sound older or younger. The age group 13-17 are knows as the adolescents stage. Teens bring blogging and hidden identity to a whole new level of the internet world. Statistic show it’s more female then male blogging and chatting all day with strangers from different races. The problem with race and gender on the internet is, one is not certain if there is a for sure man, women, boy, girl, black, white or, Spanish ect they are chatting with. When people are chatting with unknown people they use cues to help figure out their race and gender. The funny thing is it doesn’t always work. Any race or gender can use words like, honey, baby, love, and sexy so you really have to be extra careful maybe use webcam. CMC states that women may use softer words then men but to me it's pretty much the same. One great example is, I have an older lady in my class but she always writes from a male point of view. So I always thought she was a man. When I found out she was an older woman, I could have kick myself in the head. I ask her one day, “Why do you always write from a male point of view?” She stated, “I raised five sons by myself so that is really the only view I can relate too! I felt crazy after that so, cues really don’t always work! Any other suggestions to unlocking the mystery of a gender or race?
PS: The person I am stalking is on twitter: @lillanaloveable
After reading your post I clicked on a random post and made sure I couldn't see who posted it and i could not figure out for the life of me if it was a man or a woman! It could have just been that it was difficult to determine that one particular person so i tried again and still couldn't determine the person's gender. I don't think it can be as simple as looking for some emoticons and soft, pleasant words and automatically know it's a woman.
ReplyDeleteBy reading your passage, I could tell that you were a female. Your words are soft and gentle. You spoke with a feminine touch that showed you cared. Mose males speak in a broader text to show hardness. They speak with that dominate demeanor that says, "you better listen up"! Your sentence were detailed and it had a pattern that followed word by word.
ReplyDeleteA skilled writer can confuse us? Am I right? I think what is so cool is that the research is trying to pin point gender and online communication but it may be that no one cares or there is no way to really know.
ReplyDeleteSometimes that's what can make cmc interesting/weird/embarrassing. You don't know for sure you are talking to who you think you are.
ReplyDeleteI agree with whats being said you never know who is controlling the other keyboard. I have (with my own 2 eyes) seen an office with over 50 people in it mostly men... Pushing webcam girls on the internet... The way they would do it is act like the girl on the cam in chat rooms and trick people into signing up for the for a lack of a better word... Porn site... And yes... this was in Memphis... It was crazy seeing some of the things that people say when they think nobody of importance is watching or reading... There are some really messed up people out there... I tried to work there... I made it for about 1 1/2 hours before I realized ... It wasn't for me... Odd job #1...
ReplyDelete:)that's funny, D-Whizzle, I've heard of people pulling those types of stunts.
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