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Bibliography Page. Has lots of great links to articles on identity and culture

http://fragment.nl/resources/online_articles.html

Chandler, Daniel (1998) [[Personal Home Pages and the Construction of Identities on the Web. Online: [html]|Bibiography page. Has some interesting links on culture and identity.Bibiography Link: Culture and Identityhttp://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/biblio.html


Avatarculture: Narrative, power and identity in virtual world
environments
Stephen Webb

http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/163834_915545158_713768565.pdf


Diehl, W. C. and Prins, E. (2008). Unintended outcomes in second life: Intercultural literacy and cultural identity in a virtual world. Language and Intercultural Communication 8/2: 101-118.
http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/857614_915545158_907032086.pdf
Examined cross cultural engagement in Second Life, focusing on intercultural literacy
Found participants used their avatar's appearance to construct shifting cultural identities (findings on
page 110)

Douglass Laura. 2007.Contemplative Online Learning Environments. Journal of Education.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gwk21JbMkvgJ:www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer/waoe/douglass.htm+how+is+identity+created+in+an+online+learning+enviroment&hl=es&gl=mx&strip=1

This article suggests the following regarding the creation of identity in a VLE
  • online students do not need a set identity. Students can fashion themselves as anyone because there is no physical reality for them to be tied to. Students may develop entirely false identity, or multiple identities. Students can develop profiles with pictures of their current self, or from five years earlier when they were younger and lighter. This dilemma has not yet been reported in higher education, but has certainly been looked at as socio-cultural phenomena in online community and chat rooms.
  • The question of identity in the online classroom raises similar issues for the traditional classroom: do we pressure students to create a specific identity for the classroom? Do we encourage a single visible identity, while encouraging other aspects of self to stay invisible? Acknowledging that students may have multiple identities, and inviting them to share those that are most relevant to the course work may be positive for both online and traditional classrooms.