eParticipation requires some form of authentication. Most of Web 2.0 services are based on virtual identities. As social networks and reputation-based systems for products and services are increasingly complementing people's real world life with new web-based relations and experiences, the referred virtual identities are evolving towards more genuine and less ambiguous references to social iden...

This paper examines the interactions between processes of social institution virtualization, information and communication practices; as well construction valuesemantic structures individual collective identities. Authors support idea that determining how a person generates virtual reality develops is primary focus phenomenological analysis socio-philosophical research on identity transitions i...

Identity-related processes have been identified as important in explaining virtual community (VC) member behavior as well as informing system design of VCs. In particular, the two distinct identity processes of self-verification and identification have been identified and investigated separately, portrayed as two distinctive or contradictory identity processes with different practical implicati...