For the project to have substance, we decided that we need to look at more academic texts and to really understand the issues we are tackling. I took the social dynamics, specifically looking at online presences and theories as my topic of research. The first book I looked at was:
Identity in Britain: A cradle-to-grave atlas
Bethan Thomas and Daniel Dorling 2007
The Policy Press
Bristol
The identity chapter looked at how people are identified in general:
People are normally identified by (in order):
gender
age
role (in families- mother, sister, daughter and in work- friend, colleague, boss or mate, lover, acquaintance)
nationality (English)
racial
social class
geographical location
occupation
religion
An interesting term found was The Human Mosaic. It looks at the different levels of humans and locations in the world, from an individual to a crowd to a stadium, to the city, to the area, to the country etc.
(“Each place is a story of thousands of stories, a composite, collage, collection, a human mosaic”)
This could be used for the name or just use this theory to help structure our project.
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