Image : Source : http://theory.cribchronicles.com/2012/05/06/digital-identities-six-key-selves/ and read the comments at the end – below is a copy of the definitions provided Six Key Selves of Networked Publics from Bon 1. The Performative, Public Self The networked self is neither a discrete, unique snowflake that can be examined entirely unto itself, outside relationality, nor a generic group member. The networked self is linked in multiple, complex, individual node-to-node relationships with others as part of an ever-shifting public. It is also performative , constituting itself within that public through its practices and gestures. Within network publics the performative self experiences both the flattening of hierarchies across space and status (I talked to theorist Henry Giroux on Twitter the other day! And he followed me back! Yay! Access!) and the network theory principle that big nodes are more likely to attract attention and links (Giroux didn’t actually talk back to me