From clear to dark: the social media platform anonymity continuum
Kenny, DavidORCID: 0000-0002-3043-6724, Lynn, TheoORCID: 0000-0001-9284-7580 and Sinclair, GaryORCID: 0000-0002-2181-7736
(2022)
From clear to dark: the social media platform anonymity continuum.
In: DIGITAL 2022, Advances on Societal Digital Transformation - 2022, 13-17 Nov 2022, Valencia, Spain.
ISBN 978-1-68558-014-8
Darknet technologies are a transformative technology, particularly in the context of online social media. This paper explores social media platforms where user anonymity artificially constrains self-disclosure. It proposes a social media platform anonymity continuum that recognises how the emergence and growth of darknet social platforms - and the affordances of darknet technologies - have exposed conceptual limitations in our understanding of self-disclosure and technical and social anonymity on social media platforms.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:
Conference
Refereed:
Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:
social media; anonymity; dark social; grey social; clear social