First, come up with a working definition of identity. See if you can complicate this definition by thinking about how identity is created, asserted, and maintained in digital spaces.

Choose two authors listed below and explore their websites.

Analyze how identity is presented to the the audience/viewer/reader of the website. Pay particular attention to how they construct, represent, and assert identity on their sites, paying specific attention to how they visually construct their identities (e.g., through graphics and photographs, with the use of particular colors or font faces.)

Be ready to share one site and to talk about the visual identity-construction work one particular author has done.

Julian Dibbell

John Perry Barlow

Carolyn Handa

Anne Wysocki

Collin Brooke

David Blakesley

Stuart Moulthrop

Bruce Sterling

Johndan Johnson-Eilola

Jim Porter

Scott Lloyd DeWitt

Jeffrey T. Grabill

Siva Vaidhyanathan

John Slatin

John Logie

Tharon Howard

Scott McCloud

Ju Gosling

Allucquère Roseanne Stone

Barclay Barrios

Laura L. Sullivan

Kristine Blair

Daniel Anderson