The Rhizome Universe opens a windows to our project activities:
- Find centralised public resources (bookmarks, texts, photos, videos) about Online Identity in 'Identity Resources' and 'Identity Blog Ghetto'
- Follow regular updates on the status of the project here: 'Rhizome resources'
- Browse and share the project outputs in 'Research Reports'
- Join in our organised events that involve cross cooperation and participation from the community: 'Events'
- Read general information about the project here: 'People' and 'Contact'
- Find centralised public resources (bookmarks, texts, photos, videos) about Online Identity in 'Identity Resources' and 'Identity Blog Ghetto'
- Follow regular updates on the status of the project here: 'Rhizome resources'
- Browse and share the project outputs in 'Research Reports'
- Join in our organised events that involve cross cooperation and participation from the community: 'Events'
- Read general information about the project here: 'People' and 'Contact'
Rhizome - exploring strands of digital identity in learning, teaching and research
Rhizome is a research and development project exploring the key social and technical elements that impact on the construction of online identities.
The objectives are to:
- Deepen understandings about the diverse range of tools that compose the online identity panorama of services and uses elaborating what can be carried out with existing tools;
- Foster the exchange of information and practices in terms of online identity management practices in educational contexts;
- Raise the levels of awareness regarding the digital identity challenges and threats with related educational contexts through a dedicated web space/repository;
- Explore scenarios for the future development and deployment of online identities in relation to lifelong learning;
- Provide individuals with an open source self-representation device that can be plugged into major Open Source blogs to help establish lifelong learning related transactions such as competency representation and competency validation, amongst others. This plug-in will also be presented for delivery and integration into the Wordpress.com blog hosting system;
- Disseminate the project results to the wider UK educational community and beyond.
Rhizome is a research and development project exploring the key social and technical elements that impact on the construction of online identities.
The objectives are to:
- Deepen understandings about the diverse range of tools that compose the online identity panorama of services and uses elaborating what can be carried out with existing tools;
- Foster the exchange of information and practices in terms of online identity management practices in educational contexts;
- Raise the levels of awareness regarding the digital identity challenges and threats with related educational contexts through a dedicated web space/repository;
- Explore scenarios for the future development and deployment of online identities in relation to lifelong learning;
- Provide individuals with an open source self-representation device that can be plugged into major Open Source blogs to help establish lifelong learning related transactions such as competency representation and competency validation, amongst others. This plug-in will also be presented for delivery and integration into the Wordpress.com blog hosting system;
- Disseminate the project results to the wider UK educational community and beyond.
Why rhizome? This project addresses the issues surrounding the increasingly fractured nature of the self when our online identities become distributed across multiple sites and services.
Rhizome is a Deleuzian concept that has energised thinking and creativity in the arts, science and philosophy. It is used in this project as a cipher, or a departure point for representing digital identities as:
* decentralised
* unpredictable
* connected
* branching in many directions
* having multiple entry points
* with no single true view, only partial perspectives
* and constituted as a multiplicity of dimensions where we lose the illusion of the objective all seeing eye/I
Deleuze leads us to cartography and the map, a space which has no privileged entry point and is always open to change.
This is a metaphor we have played on with our chosen technical platform - Netvibes - a representation that captures the multiple views and entry points to the study.
Deleuze & Guattari (1987). A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press.
Sermijn, Devlieger and Loots (2008). The Narrative Construction of the Self: Selfhood as a Rhizomatic Story. Qualitative Inquiry, (14)4:632–650.
Rhizome is a Deleuzian concept that has energised thinking and creativity in the arts, science and philosophy. It is used in this project as a cipher, or a departure point for representing digital identities as:
* decentralised
* unpredictable
* connected
* branching in many directions
* having multiple entry points
* with no single true view, only partial perspectives
* and constituted as a multiplicity of dimensions where we lose the illusion of the objective all seeing eye/I
Deleuze leads us to cartography and the map, a space which has no privileged entry point and is always open to change.
This is a metaphor we have played on with our chosen technical platform - Netvibes - a representation that captures the multiple views and entry points to the study.
Deleuze & Guattari (1987). A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press.
Sermijn, Devlieger and Loots (2008). The Narrative Construction of the Self: Selfhood as a Rhizomatic Story. Qualitative Inquiry, (14)4:632–650.
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