hello everybody, my name is diane elshout,
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Hello everybody, my name is Diane Elshout,. I am part of the TRIP module,. My research question has been: “How do you keep yourself together”. I came to this question through my fascination with Identity Theft. and more specific with an Identity Theft Protection Kit. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Hello everybody, my name is Diane
Elshout,
I am part of the TRIP module,
My research question has been: “How do you keep
yourself together”
I came to this question through my fascination
with Identity Theft
and more specific with an Identity Theft Protection
Kit
Identity theft concernes the loss of citizinship,
bank and social security numbers
and internet-identities.
It is a crime that has become serious business.
It affects in America alone:
13.3 persons per minute,
799 per hour,
19,178 per day
creating on a years basis:
9.3 million Victims:
$52.6 billion of loss to businesses
$5 billions of loss to individual victims
297 million hours spent by victims resolving their
problems
It is a fast developing crime as we see on this
chart, showing the victims world wide.
Breaking them down in to age groups like shown on
this statistic.
The information of this statistic has been
provided by the company Identity Theft 9 11.
How does a victim of identity theft look like?
And these are some famous identity theft
cases: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Steven Spielberg Barry Bonds Ted Turner Mayor Michael Bloomberg Robert De Niro Will Smith
And this is how the criminals look like.
The 'Bonnie and Clyde' of identity theft:
Jocelyn Kirsch, 22, and
Edward Anderton, 25.
Living the high life on stolen cash ...
I will now give a short overview of the companies
that provide the identity survival kits
The identity theft protection kits that are
offered,
depart form the fact that there is one identity that can be stolen from you.
As a result this one and only identity can be
protected with a fit all protection kit.
As if the identity is that coherent,
as if your identity and the reality you function
in can be controlled
I could conclude that these companies are
dealing with identity theft in a modernist way
Modernism is “an expression of confidence that
humankind can learn to understand, and then
master,
nature and natural forces, that we can grasp the
nature of the universe,
and even shape our individual destinies and the future of the world.”
But this view on life we have left behind us.
As we see in the painting “Suiside by modernism”
Nowadays a person's sense of identity is a
composite …
constructed by the forces of and the interaction with the surrounding culture.
This post modernistic view, in stark contrast to
modernism,
is about the dissolving of the self.
“We should not think of ourselves as
unique, unified, self-conscious, autonomous
persons”.
If we apply this knowledge to an identity survival kit,
we come to a much more confusing point of
departure.
If my identity changes per minute,
contact and circumstance
what can I hold together?
And how can I create an identity theft tool kit with
this notion?
If anybody that knows me, it is me!
I am my own expert about my daily identity!
I am the one that tries to keep myself together,
whatever that may be and however this may look
like!
So, before I go on,
just to get it right,
I want to have a brief look at my post modern self
with
my body
that is made up of 100 trillion cells
my fluids
my intelectual capacities
my spirit
my social interaction
my culture
and my history
this all makes up ME
me, myself and
my identity.
We are not as stable as we thought
In the 21 century, our identity is fluid
Fluid Identity “ a concept that identity is not rigid, but can and
does change”.
As we see in our existence
on this planet
and in our digital worlds.
We worked with the idea of multiple entrances of
our fluid identity with our sub group.
in order to construct an Identity Theft Tool Kit.
And they came up with
CLONING
Cloning themselves
and
cloning others
and