The Pseudonym on the Internet: Identity Creation and Space of Freedom

Abstract

New Technologies of Information and Communication (TIC) are located out of time and out of space. Indeed, the permanent connectivity of people through digital interfaces (binary type) is at the origin of the implementation of completely new paradigms. Anonymity and privacy are two phenomena that oppose one another with respect to both the social practices and their concepts involved; they have a huge impact on the organizational structure of the various civil societies in the world. In addition, if the digital society is rooted in civil society, it does not duplicate. Moreover, on Internet users identify themselves by creating their pseudonymous and by the use of pseudonyms in a relationship without any hierarchy, while in civil society nomination is subject to the law.

Keywords

• Internet
• Onomastics
• Proxemic distances
• Identity
• Creation