Chapter 4 The social value of anonymity on campus
"This paper considers the social value of anonymity in online university student communities, through the presentation of research which tracked the final year of life of the social media application Yik Yak. Yik Yak was an anonymous, geosocial mobile application launched in 2013 which, at its peak...
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| author | Bayne, Sian Connelly, Louise Groverc, Claire Osborned, Nicola Tobinc, Richard Beswicke, Emily Rouhanif, Lilinaz |
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| description | "This paper considers the social value of anonymity in online university student communities, through the presentation of research which tracked the final year of life of the social media application Yik Yak. Yik Yak was an anonymous, geosocial mobile application launched in 2013 which, at its peak in 2014, was used by around two million students in the US and UK. The research we report here is significant as a mixed method study tracing the final year of the life of this app in a large UK university between 2016
and 2017. The paper uses computational and ethnographic methods to understand what might be at stake in the loss of anonymity within university student communities in a datafied society. Countering the most common argument made against online anonymity – its association with hate speech and victimisation – the paper draws on recent conceptual work on the social value of anonymity to argue that anonymity online in this context had significant value for the communities that use it. This study of a now-lost social network constitutes a valuable portrait by which we might better understand our current predicament in relation to anonymity, its perceived value and its growing impossibility." |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-268612025-07-30T08:59:27Z Chapter 4 The social value of anonymity on campus Bayne, Sian Connelly, Louise Groverc, Claire Osborned, Nicola Tobinc, Richard Beswicke, Emily Rouhanif, Lilinaz Anonymity ephemerality social media Yik Yak community campus datafication thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education "This paper considers the social value of anonymity in online university student communities, through the presentation of research which tracked the final year of life of the social media application Yik Yak. Yik Yak was an anonymous, geosocial mobile application launched in 2013 which, at its peak in 2014, was used by around two million students in the US and UK. The research we report here is significant as a mixed method study tracing the final year of the life of this app in a large UK university between 2016 and 2017. The paper uses computational and ethnographic methods to understand what might be at stake in the loss of anonymity within university student communities in a datafied society. Countering the most common argument made against online anonymity – its association with hate speech and victimisation – the paper draws on recent conceptual work on the social value of anonymity to argue that anonymity online in this context had significant value for the communities that use it. This study of a now-lost social network constitutes a valuable portrait by which we might better understand our current predicament in relation to anonymity, its perceived value and its growing impossibility." 2019-11-12 11:54:41 2020-04-01T09:30:39Z 2019 chapter 1006290 OCN: 1135849427 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23848 9780429341359 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26861 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/23848/1/Chapter4_9780367357191.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/23848/1/Chapter4_9780367357191.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/23848/1/Chapter4_9780367357191.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/23848/1/Chapter4_9780367357191.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/23848/1/Chapter4_9780367357191.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.1080/17439884.2019.1583672 10.1080/17439884.2019.1583672 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 The Datafication of Education 9780429341359 Routledge 16 open access |
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