The site is a directory of the world's people, and a place for private citizens to create public identities.

Their very specific types of programming - news, sports and children's shows, respectively - give each a clear public identity.

It is a social process that allows us to have a public identity.

Your public identity may be distorted by fragments of information that have little to do with how you define yourself.

He'll probably develop a public identity in time, too.

He was made the front man of the band and his name became the band's public identity.

Religion was really the only other avenue left to women to create a public identity.

"If those people collectively feel an artist has achieved public identity, they will not allow them to compete."

But several years ago, he began to integrate the disease into his public identity.

The writers also rely on small distinctions to separate their public identities.