Dressing up as Vampires: Virtual vamps - negotiating female identity in cyberspace

WAYFINDING IN CYBERSPACE Negotiating connections between sites

As the number of 3D virtual worlds grow, the distributed nature of the Internet will juxtapose many different kinds of spatial environments. Moving between these environments can be disorienting due to the lack of structural continuity. How can we create an easily navigable experience in a realm so different from the stable, natural world that we inhabit? This paper provides background about na...

Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire.

Sexuality is generally considered an important aspect of self-hood. Therefore, individuals who do not experience sexual attraction, and embrace an asexual identity are in a unique position to inform the social construction of sexuality. This study explores the experiences of asexual individuals utilizing open ended Internet survey data from 102 self-identified asexual people. In this paper I de...

Dressing Up and Dressing Down: Clothing and Class Identity in the Novelas ejemplares

Invoking Law as a Basis for Identity in Cyberspace

¶1 On Sunday morning, Ms. B. dials into Prodigy, then logs on to the Prayer Line, a bulletin board storing messages from around the world. She scans a list of the most recent entries: Learning how to lean; Let me pray for you; My father; My mother’s stroke; National day of prayer; Please pray; Prayer for health; Ralph needs prayer; The father’s heart.1 These are the supplications of a group tha...

Negotiating Trust in Identity Metasystem

Many federated identity management systems have been proposed to solve the problem of authorizing users across security domains. Although these solutions attempt to follow the user-centric design approach to empower users by letting them make important decisions on whether to release sensitive information, they do not provide much help to users in making good decisions. More importantly, privac...