Interview 1 (one) of your family members, friends, or colleagues on their identities in social media.

  1. What social media platforms and apps they have used now and in the past?
  2. Do they use their real name(s)? Have they ever used aliases or created fake accounts? Why?
  3. What different personas do they construct in each of these platforms and how do they relate to aspects of their experiences in life?
  4. Do the digital personas they construct help them cope with the problems they face or do they create new problems? In what ways?

Share the result of your interview here and relate your analysis with our discussion of Turkle’s articles as well as Athique’s chapter 5 and 7. Make sure to include two quotes from those readings.

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