Online Anonymity and Sociality - Teilprojekt im Verbundvorhaben "Reconfiguring Anonymity - Contemporary Forms of Reciprocity, Identifiability and Accountability in Transformation"

Project: Research

Project participants

Description

Every step a user takes online leaves behind traces. Such traces are central to the generation of value of many social media platforms and provide opportunities for surveillance by multiple agents. SP 1 researches, how social media apps and platforms set up regimes of anonymity. Three strands of questioning emerge:

Firstly, the phenomenology of online anonymity: Here we ask, how anonymity fluctuates between perceived and ‘real’, staged and hidden forms? What shapes does it take at different moments in time, for different human or machine observers, and on varying levels, ranging from protocols to the database, and the interface?

Secondly, SP1 researches, how regimes of online anonymity are produced: While software developers, information architects, designers, marketers and product owners prefigure and negotiate such regimes, user practices are not only framed by such settings, but have also the potential to influence and sometimes to undermine them. Larger factors like technical infrastructures and protocols, data-driven economies, discourses about anonymity, and legal frameworks such as data protection play further crucial roles.

Thirdly, SP1 explores the dynamics of sociality in the emerging regimes of anonymity. Forms of reciprocity and accountability, personhood and collectivity of users will be analyzed as claims embedded in platform design, and through the tacit and explicit knowledge of designers and software developers about how regimes of anonymity shape accountability, personhood and reciprocity on the user side.

To this aim, SP1 will conduct ethnographic case studies, build prototypes, and organize roundtables.
StatusFinished
Period01.07.1531.12.20

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Researchers

  1. Paul Silas Peterson

Publications

  1. Variation revisited: A corpus analysis of offers in Irish English and British English
  2. Community-based Entrepreneurship and Rural Development
  3. On the microstructure of the German export boom: Evidence from establishment panel data, 1995-2002
  4. Mathematik 1
  5. Audit quality and materiality disclosure quality in integrated reporting
  6. Communication management of start-ups: an empirical analysis of entrepreneurs’ communication and networking success on Facebook
  7. Früherkennung als Problem der Unternehmensführung in virtuellen Organisationen
  8. Specific SBR population behaviour as revealed by comparative dynamic simulation analysis of three full-scale municipal SBR wastewater treatment plants
  9. Spatial variation in human disturbances and their effects on forest structure and biodiversity across an Afromontane forest
  10. Gathering Voices, Feeling Relations
  11. The attenuating effect of mortality salience on dishonest behavior
  12. Activity-based start-up simulations in entrepreneurship education at the German universities
  13. Tree Species Traits but Not Diversity Mitigate Stem Breakage in a Subtropical Forest following a Rare and Extreme Ice Storm
  14. Identity affirmation and social movement support
  15. Top-down social modulation of perception-action coupling
  16. Lernkarten Bibelkunde
  17. Is Export Diversification good for Productivity? First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany
  18. Spatial characterization of coastal marine social-ecological systems
  19. Constructing The European Space Policy
  20. Implications of financial transaction costs on the real economy
  21. Reducing aquatic micropollutants – Increasing the focus on input prevention and integrated emission management
  22. “Normality” Revisited: Fieldwork and Family
  23. Anchoring and Sleep Inertia
  24. Continental-scale ecology versus landscape-scale case studies
  25. What do we know about Antibiotics in the Environment?
  26. Größen bauen auf Längen
  27. Time sensitivity
  28. The impact of digitisation and big data analysis on the sustainable development of tourism and its environmental impact
  29. Consumer Preferences and Their Willingness to Pay for Local Products (by Means of Consumer Ethnocentrism)
  30. Metaphern und ihre Bedeutung für das mathematische Tätigsein
  31. Sustainability process assessment on transformative potentials
  32. Erfolgreich enttäuschend
  33. The global perspective of education for sustainable development
  34. Lebens-Formen
  35. Plasma arcing during contact separation of HVDC relays
  36. The Post-entry Performance of Cohorts of Export Starters in German Manufacturing Industries
  37. Special Section: Pragmatic Development and Stay Abroad
  38. The Maternal in Drag
  39. Worldwide distribution of Persistent Organic Pollutants in air, including results of air monitoring by passive air sampling in five continents
  40. Berufsorientierte Schreibkompetenz mithilfe von SRSD fördern
  41. Frömmigkeit der Theologie, zur Logik der offenen Theodizeefrage
  42. Deliberative Bürgerbeteiligung in der Priorisierungsdebatte
  43. The post-normal politics and science of wind power planning