Identity Flexibility
Definition
The ability to construct, alter or discard an online persona at will, which lets a person present differently online than they would in a face-to-face setting.
Related terms
- Cyber-Criminology
- K. Jaishankar's field, defined as the study of the causation of crimes that occur in cyberspace and their impact on physical space,...
- Dissociative Anonymity
- The sense that one's online identity is separable from one's offline self, which lowers the felt risk of social or legal consequence...
- Space Transition Theory
- Jaishankar's 2008 theory explaining offending as a product of movement between physical space and cyberspace, set out across seven postulates rather than...
- Conforming and Non-Conforming Behaviour
- The theory's core distinction between behaviour that follows a person's usual social norms and behaviour that departs from them, used to describe...
- Conforming Behaviour
- Behaviour that follows the social norms of the space a person occupies, which the theory treats as a function of the space...
- Non-Conforming Behaviour
- Behaviour that breaks social norms; the theory's central claim is that a person can move from conforming to non-conforming, or the reverse,...
- Online Disinhibition
- A term from psychologist John Suler describing the loosening of ordinary social restraint online, arising from anonymity, invisibility, delayed feedback and other...
- Online Disinhibition Effect
- John Suler's 2004 concept that humans behave with reduced restraint online compared with face-to-face, driven by six factors that loosen accountability and...
Explained in these topics
- Space Transition Theory and Cyber-Criminology
- Space Transition Theory and Cyber-Criminology (UGC-NET Unit IV)The practical freedom to build an online persona from scratch and discard it without cost, distinct from dissociative anonymity's feeling of untraceability.