Why do people seek anonymity on the Internet? Informing policy and design

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2657-2666

  Kang, Ruogu ^a   Brown, Stephanie ^b   Kiesler, Sara ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Information disclosure; Online community; Privacy

Indexed keywords

ANONYMITY; FUTURE INTERNET ARCHITECTURE; INFORMATION DISCLOSURE; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; ON-LINE INTERACTIONS;

DATA PRIVACY; DESIGN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTERNET; WEBSITES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84877972249     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2481368     Document Type: Conference Paper

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