"this is a throwaway account": Temporary technical identities and perceptions of anonymity in a massive online community

CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 317-327

  Leavitt, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Multiple Profile Maintenance; Reddit; Selective Self Presentation; Social News Sites; Throwaway Account

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TRACE ANALYSIS;

ANONYMITY; REDDIT; SELF PRESENTATIONS; SOCIAL NEWS; THROWAWAY ACCOUNT;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 84960984485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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