The Social Productivity of Anonymity: Special Issue of Ephemera Journal
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The Social Productivity of Anonymity : Special Issue of Ephemera Journal. / Bachmann, Götz (Editor); Knecht, Michi (Editor); Wittel, Andreas (Editor).
2 ed. Warwick Business School, 2017. (Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization; Vol. 17, No. 2).Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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TY - BOOK
T1 - The Social Productivity of Anonymity
T2 - Special Issue of Ephemera Journal
A2 - Bachmann, Götz
A2 - Knecht, Michi
A2 - Wittel, Andreas
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - In a process that started decades ago, a multiplicity of forces is creating a slow, but steadily rising storm against anonymity. Discourses of transparency and accountability often describe anonymity as a threat. Technologies such as the IP-address-based Internet, sensory devices, and machine learning techniques further undermine anonymous encounters. In an age of near ubiquitous surveillance, anonymity is under attack. But what is at stake in such discourses and developments? Based on the premise that anonymity is always socially productive and always socially produced, this special issue draws attention to anonymity as a social form that demands renewed attention. The contributions explore its temporalities, its transformative powers, and its entanglements with public spheres, property relations, and practices of person making.
AB - In a process that started decades ago, a multiplicity of forces is creating a slow, but steadily rising storm against anonymity. Discourses of transparency and accountability often describe anonymity as a threat. Technologies such as the IP-address-based Internet, sensory devices, and machine learning techniques further undermine anonymous encounters. In an age of near ubiquitous surveillance, anonymity is under attack. But what is at stake in such discourses and developments? Based on the premise that anonymity is always socially productive and always socially produced, this special issue draws attention to anonymity as a social form that demands renewed attention. The contributions explore its temporalities, its transformative powers, and its entanglements with public spheres, property relations, and practices of person making.
KW - Media and communication studies
KW - anonymity
KW - social productivity
KW - surveillance
KW - transparency
M3 - Special Journal issue
VL - 17
T3 - Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization
BT - The Social Productivity of Anonymity
PB - Warwick Business School
ER -