I have recently finished a working paper for a small publication that will be published at Knowledge Lab, University of Southern Denmark. The paper is entitled “The digital identity theatre”. It talks about the role of an e-portfolio using metaphors from the theatre (relying heavily on Erving Goffman). The e-portfolio can be a place where a person negotiates his or her identity with external sources who are defining him or her already. We are constantly being described as learners (via exam papers), as taxpaper (in tax returns), as patients (in medical journals), as criminals (in criminal records) etc. But only rarely do we have a say  in what is written about us. I have heard of portfolio projects on hospitals, where the patients write about how they experience their illness and the treatment. Doing so they go from passiv recipients of treatment to active producers of text about it. The portfolio makes it possible for the patient to follow his or her healing process – because you can witness your own progression. It also gives the person some of the autonomy back you loose as a patient. Could one imagine the same in relation to all the other external descriptions we encounter during our life? Is it the future of e.g. Facebook to be used for this purpose?