Posts Tagged "personal identity"

• Brand You According to Google

  Business & Marketing
  

  Let’s face it, the ability to manage and control our personal and professional identities has taken a big hit thanks to web services like Google, MySpace, Facebook, social bookmarking and now challenges like “25 Random Things About Me” that’s been making the rounds.
  Depending on how you play it out it’s either the underside or simply [...]

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• What Happens Here Doesn’t Stay Here

  Games & Sims
  

  Does what you experience and learn in virtual environments like MMOGs and videogames have any relevance to real life?
  Thought leaders like Jim Gee and researchers like Jeremy Bailenson, director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL), assert that it does. Bailenson has been studying ways that online behavior affects daily life (.pdf) and in [...]

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