Empirical analysis of online anonymity and user behaviors: The impact of Real Name policy

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3041-3050

  Cho, Daegon ^a   Kim, Soodong ^b   Acquisti, Alessandro ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TxVia Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

ANONYMITY AND PRIVACY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION PROCESS; KOREAN GOVERNMENT; PRIVACY INVASIONS; PUBLIC OPINIONS; UNDESIRABLE EFFECTS; VERIFICATION PROCESS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84863233734     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2012.241     Document Type: Conference Paper

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