The impact of anonymity in online communities

Proceedings - SocialCom/PASSAT/BigData/EconCom/BioMedCom 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 526-535

  Omernick, Eli ^a   Sood, Sara Owsley ^a  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Comment threads; Community management; Negativity; Online communities; Profanity; User generated content

Indexed keywords

ANONYMITY; COMMENT THREADS; COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT; NEGATIVITY; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; PROFANITY; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

WEBSITES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84893581077     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SocialCom.2013.80     Document Type: Conference Paper

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