Social Virtual Reality (social VR or SVR) provides digital spaces for diverse human activities, social interactions, and embodied face-to-face encounters. While our bodies in SVR can general be of almost any conceivable appearance, individualized even personalized avatars bearing users’ likeness recently became an interesting research topic. Such show a great potential to enhance the authentici...

Surveillance is a process that observes behaviour, recognises properties and identifies individuals. It has become a commonplace phenomenon in our everyday life. Many surveillance practices depend on the use of advanced technologies to collect, store and process data. We propose (i) an abstract definition of surveillance; and (ii) an abstract definition of identity, designed to capture the comm...

Received: 21 January 2011 Revised: 15 July 2011 2nd Revision: 06 February 2012 3rd Revision: 10 September 2012 4th Revision: 19 September 2013 Accepted: 30 September 2013 Abstract Electronic services such as virtual communities or electronic commerce demand user authentication. Several more or less successful federated identity management systems have emerged to support authentication across di...

The paper deals with the study of self-presentation virtual linguistic identity, which authors consider as a multifaceted, specific type identity functioning within electronic discourse. key notions on topic have been defined, well their synonyms introduced: language In order to illustrate some synonymous lexical units listed above, are most used by modern linguists, statistical method has used...