#sharedidentityresearch

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Shared Identity Research

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Bullet Points

Collecting personal information online and categorising identities by their name

Drawing connections between people that share the same name

Gather searches that find shared identities, this will be through google search and Facebook search 

Website will consist of a search bar that will allow for someone to enter their name. Based on this search, people that have the same name as the one entered into the search bar will appear as one collective group.

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Keywords

Relationships Connections Family Strangers

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Shared Identity

My publication was about my family history, written by my grandfather. I wanted to look into the way he collected the information that made up the publication, and I found out a lot of the document was based off word of mouth. This has led me to wonder about sharing personal stories with others online and drawing similarities between families that have no connection at all.

I began to look at Facebook as a way of connecting people together, people that may have never met before and share a collective identity. This finally led me to thinking I could gather Facebook profiles that shared the same name but have no relation at all as it feels like you have a connection with this person even though you have never met them and then categorise them all together as one collective.