{"id":951,"date":"2014-10-31T15:17:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T15:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=951"},"modified":"2014-10-31T15:17:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T15:17:58","slug":"doppelnamers-when-your-digital-identity-is-also-someone-elses-all-tech-considered-npr-31-october-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2014\/10\/31\/doppelnamers-when-your-digital-identity-is-also-someone-elses-all-tech-considered-npr-31-october-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Doppelnamers: When Your Digital Identity Is Also Someone Else’s : All Tech Considered : NPR, 31 October 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

“One of the most important things online is the reputation you build up: what you said, what you’ve done, what’s said about you. It’s really the entirety of an identity in a world where there’s no body,” says Judith Donath, a researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She specializes in online identity. “When you share a name with many other people, you start sharing, effectively, a history and reputation with them,” Donath says.<\/p>\n

In 2005, writer Mike Sager wasn’t keen to share his name with so many other Mike Sagers.<\/p>\n

via Doppelnamers: When Your Digital Identity Is Also Someone Else’s : All Tech Considered : NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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