Welcome to the Website, 3.91.8.23. What is your online identity? Today's Date: Thursday, March 28th 2024.
Introduction
About Us
The Survey
The Results
Analysis
Persistence of Identities
New Identities
Internet Class
Conclusion
The Results
      These are the results of the survey. We have only displayed selected responses for the open ended questions as it is not feasible to display every response. For analysis of the results, please click here. The total number of results for this survey is 107 persons.

1. Do You Identify Your Race Online?
Response Number of People
I do not identify my race online. 22
I only identify my race when asked. 78
I outwardly tell people my race. 7


2. Do You Identify Your Ethnicity Online?
Response Number of People
I do not identify my ethnicity online. 20
I only identify my ethnicity when asked. 79
I outwardly tell people my ethnicity. 8


3. Do You Identify Your Sexuality Online?
Response Number of People
I do not identify my sexuality online. 17
I only identify my sexuality when asked. 61
I outwardly tell people my sexuality. 29


4. Do You Identify Your Gender Online?
Response Number of People
I do not identify my gender online. 3
I only identify my gender when asked. 30
I outwardly tell people my gender. 74


5. Do You Identify Your Age Online?
Response Number of People
I do not identify my age online. 24
I only identify my age when asked. 51
I outwardly tell people my age. 32


6. Have you ever lied to or mislead someone about your sexuality?
Response Number of People
Yes. 17
No. 90


7. Have you ever lied to or mislead someone about your age?
Response Number of People
Yes. 37
No. 70


8. Have you ever lied to or mislead someone about your gender?
Response Number of People
Yes. 11
No. 96


9. Have you ever lied to or mislead someone about your race?
Response Number of People
Yes. 23
No. 84


10. Have you ever lied to or mislead someone about your ethnicity?
Response Number of People
Yes. 20
No. 87


11. Please identify the approximate sexuality, race, gender, age, and ethnicity of the individual (TrinTiTTy) speaking in the following IRC passage and explain why you identified the individual the way you did:
[00:07] <TrinTiTTy> wadup my nigger?
Selected Results
Response: "considering my experience with the internet i would assume he white male because their are a few black people are the internet"

Response: "Sexuality - Unknow; Race - any; Gender - male; Ethnicity - any
Basically in today's day and age people talk to there friends that they know closely in an free and brotherly fashion."

Response: "Straight, Gangster, Male, African American - Identified because of the word 'nigger' "


12. Please identify the approximate sexuality, race, gender, age, and ethnicity of the individual (Xenocide) speaking in the following IRC passage and explain why you identified the individual the way you did:
[15:32] <Xenocide> dude i hate all the poor people they are fucking fags and accomplish nothing in life
[15:33] <Xenocide> they should all be dead
[15:33] <CeLe> ROFL
Selected Results
Response: "white (explaine above) male possible gay because of reaction formation."

Response: "Sexuality - any; race - any; gender - any; ethnicity - any - Reason: Clearly girls and guys nowadays talk to each other in a very non gender way. On the internet people basically interact openly because in their head they have the prerequisite that they already know the person on the other side of the screen personally."

Response: "Straight, Sexist, Male, White - Identified because of the word 'fags'"


13. Please identify the approximate sexuality, race, gender, age, and ethnicity of the individual (Zodiac) speaking in the following IRC passage and explain why you identified the individual the way you did:
[12:53] <Zodiac> tru. dat, Hey are we gonna own those faags I got the md5 hash to their forum
Selected Results
Response: "Hacker, male, probally white, elite - use of computer phrases"

Response: "Sexuality - any; race - any; gender - any; ethnicity - any - Girls at times may want to talk like a ganster as well as guys so it is hard to identify."

Response: "Straight, Hacker, Male, White Identified because use of fags and md5 phrase"


14. In which situation would you most likely represent yourself truly (in terms of sexuality, race, gender, age, and ethnicity)?
Response Number of People
IRC Chatrooms 7
Online Virtual Worlds (Including Games) 0
Voice Chat Servers 11
Online Forums 17
Webcams 70
Other 2


15. In which situation would you least likely represent yourself truly (in terms of sexuality, race, gender, age, and ethnicity)?
Response Number of People
IRC Chatrooms 18
Online Virtual Worlds (Including Games) 77
Voice Chat Servers 3
Online Forums 8
Webcams 0
Other 1


16. Why would you represent yourself most accurately in the situation selected in question thirteen?
Selected Results
Response: "it it hard to mask a voice"

Response: "Online Forums, because I really dont mind people knowing who is on their website."

Response: "Other, such as AIM, because if people ask about who I am ill probably tell them what they want."


17. Why would you represent yourself least accurately in the situation selected in question fourteen?
Selected Results
Response: "it is part of the virtual aspect"

Response: "your supposed to pretend in the virtual worlds"

Response: "Online Virtual Worlds such as Games, because you dont really need to share much of who you are, you just play the game."


18. How do you rank people on the internet (in terms of a social classification structure)?
Selected Results
Response: "Lowest are the script kiddies then newbs cause they are the foundation for the future at the top wotu be elite people"

Response: "By how I know them, basically the top of the ladder is people I know personally, then their friends will follow, then random people I met online will make up the rest by how well we communicate over the length of time I know them."

Response: "Depends on how much respect i have in them."


19. What are your thoughts on new identities on the internet such as warez kiddies, e-whores, crackers (as in terms of a program cracker), and hackers. How do these identities correspond to their real-world counterparts.
Selected Results
Response: "People who are cocky and arogent in real life typically follow the perona in real life"

Response: "To make it short the internet like the real world is full of people with identities that are not what it always seem. The internet makes it harder though because there is no emotional basis on the internet to identity how truly sincere some is on the internet. People on the internet know the behind the screen effects and so they interact differently than in the real world, script kiddies, e-whores, etc., just take it step farther, but what is interesting with them is that words are all they have to capture someone's attention."

Response: "his also depends, but it depends on how they act in real life. One person could be one of the above to many people online, but then to others in real life they can be other things and have people respect them."