English
351 Identity Project
Your first project focused on the nature
of linking and the relationship of print to electronic documents.
Our second project focuses on the nature of identity on the internet.
In this project, I ask you to think about how in creating a site,
you are creating a persona: an identity or fragments of an identity.
This assignment is a (hopefully) more theoretically
informed take on the traditional "make your own home page"
assignment (though if you have been dying to create your own home
page, you can certainly use this assignment to do so).The idea here
is that the web is more than informational nodes and connections
between those nodes; it is also a way of creating yourself and reinventing
yourself through content, typography, color, media and connection.
In coming up with an idea for this project, spend
some time with the my page of past
identity projects. The projects ranged from traditional home
pages to pages that created a fragmented identity, to pages which
created virtual identities. Other students have defined themselves
by where they have been, what they watch, or their children.
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