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A project done by a student from a Digital Media Studies class at Pomona College.This video touches on the reasons why males choose female characters in MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) and why gender swapping is so common online.

An abstract video depicting the new "real" identity in today's world.Often,people deem online personalities as being more "fake" than the unseen person typing behind the computer.However,considering that all the different identities come from the same person,is this distinction between the real and unreal identities fair?\n\n

A news broadcast concerning the signing up of seven credit loans by a teenage boy on Facebook.\n

The vast array of data points that make up "personal information" in the age of online media are nearly impossible to quantify or neatly define. Name, address, and phone number are just the basics in a world where voluntarily posting self-authored content such as text, photos, and video has become a cornerstone of engagement in the era of the participatory Web. The more content we contribute voluntarily to the public or semi-public corners of the Web, the more we are not only findable, but also knowable.