Pseudonymity, Separatism and Multidimensional Thinking

There have been a couple of very interesting conversations going on over the last few days related to two blog posts on the topic of human and avatar identity:

• "Pseudonynimity AKA Privacy" by Soror Nishi decried what she sees as a growing consensus in the avatar community that revealing one's human identity is a good thing.  Soror finds the "avatar AKA human identity" trend boring and wrong-headed.

• "There is No Wall" by Lalo Telling put forward the idea that the "Augmentationist/Immersionist" conversation would be better served by replacing those terms with "Separatist/Integrationist." 

I decided to go up the mountain with my visualization tools and see what might be revealed on the topics. Here's what I came back with:

This first graphic takes the binary view of pseudonymity discussed in Soror's post and attempts to reveal the multi-dimensional complexity beneath the surface.



This next graphic explores the "what" of Lalo's Separation/Integration concept.



I'll write more about the graphics and their underlying ideas later this week.