It's less mortifying if I share

[atatteredrose]

I'm just like, going to spaz until I get my crap together far enough to successfully move, and know exactly what meetings/paperwork I need to do once I am on campus.  Again.  After 5 years.  Don't ask.  And so I procrastinate by hollowing out books.  If our internet stopped going out for hours at a time, I could at least productively catch up on

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[c_canadensis]

I've made worse errors with academic e-mails.

Also, someone should point the YouTube designers to her work. It asked me today if I want my full name displayed instead of a username and when I said no, not one of its answers to the "Why not?" was "I do not want everyone online to know my identity IRL".

[atatteredrose]

If I can't get into grad school, I'm blaming that moment. >:[

She's pretty seminal, and it is a bit more than a bit strange, since "important people" in media tend to wind up sending a representative to TED or an academic media conference of one sort or another. My guess is that it's mostly perspective: user generated content is most closely affiliated with the individuals "real life" identity, with anonymity/secondary personas merely hijacking the platforms.

What I now wonder is if they put the "RL is separate..." option up there, would more people go underground? Within RL social circles you just need handles, with "access" to the information forming a desirable "in group" hierarchy. Inclusion/Exclusion etc. Mass public attention doesn't need specifics - and YouTube already has an option to limit access to pre-approved individuals.

[c_canadensis]

I doubt it'll keep you out of grad school. Good luck though.

Well, most people choose user names for those sites that don't give away their real names (albeit, sometimes for fun rather than due to privacy concerns), so I suspect if "RL is separate" was an option, lots of people would take it. But maybe I overestimate how many people have secondary personas online since I typically stick to fannish areas of the internet and sometimes forget that lots of people use the internet for totally different things.

[atatteredrose]

At the time my concern was that I haven't done research in media studies and any profs who'd vouch for me have probably forgotten about me by now. But if I could impress Turkle... Don't think my ling degree will get me far without references, though it shouldn't hurt.

So instead I have found a linguist-anthropologist-(magician) who is awesome, and strangely perfect discipline-wise. And this realname/fakename has come up - his project is on EdX, massively online courses from the Harvart/MIT/Berkeley alliance, and I'm curious how many people -won't- use their real names. O.O

[dr_ducktator]

Oh god. I facepalmed for you. I would totally do something like that. Good luck!

[atatteredrose]

I'm currently still pretending it never happened (and everyone I've talked to thinks she'd find it funny) but I have an almost-finalized gig studying EdX under an awesome linguistic-anthropologist-magician, so maybe it worked out for the best?

PS: you're in Peru?

[dr_ducktator]

That does sound awesome!
And yes, I'm in Peru. I still don't think it's real.