Digital Identity

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Cyworld: digital possessions and identity across a social world's decline and revival | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: How Cyworld's rented rooms and acorn-bought decorations turned into identity, what the platform's shutdown took away, and what each attempt at revival has actually promised to restore.

Shared accounts that complicate the idea of one user, one person | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: One public account can represent a team, family, newsroom, or organization, so account counts and behavior patterns do not map neatly onto individual people.

Synthetic profile photographs and the appearance of personal identity | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: A convincing profile photograph can make an account feel like a person, but a generated face proves almost nothing about who operates the account behind it.