Aug 24, 2009

Personas: data portraits of online identities



Personas is a nifty creation from MIT's Social Media Lab, describing itself as follows:

[Personas] uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one's aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.

It is, possibly, the future of history:

It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world, where digital histories are as important if not more important than oral histories, and computational methods of condensing our digital traces are opaque and socially ignorant.