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Anonymity in online discussion forums
Does it promote connections?
Networked Learning Conference 2010
Experience of anonymity outwith the university
Elly: ...I was, I think it was um Greenpeace or something like that, I used to write on. And there was lots of vegetarians on there, and I was vegetarian, but I kind of advocated buying meat properly, and I got in real trouble(h) with everyone else on the [forum
Interviewer: [Right. They couldn't track you down and
Elly: yeah they couldn't come and burn my house or anything(h)
Awareness of online anonymity
Belinda: ...and there is a lot of... discussion amongst ourselves is, I bet that was so-and-so...
Interviewer: although you had probably read [anonymous messages without realising that
Denise: [I probably had, to be honest, yeah, I probably just skimmed, I just looked at the message [and that was it
Interviewer: [and wondered how they did that
Denise: yeah
Anonymous poster identity guessing game
Elly: I felt quite threatened by it
Approving online anonymity
Choosing
to use online anonymity or not
Belinda: ...and I know that online you've said you've got to say, you've got to, adhere to a certain... you know, not be offensive, and things like that, well, sometimes... you want to be offensive ((laughs))...
Imogen: personally i would like to see names on here because as we are going to be professionals, i think it is a good way of practising dealing with individual and group issues, conflict etc in a professional way
Disaproving online anonymity
Interviewer: so when you [say, earlier
Gemma: [I don't know
Interviewer: that you default to anonymous
Gemma: uhum
Interviewer: but you wouldn't have posted any of those anonymously
Gemma: um
Interviewer: in blackboard now
Gemma: it's hard to know, I think, when I read them like that in black and white, I can't see any reason why you wouldn't [ just
Interviewer: [ yeah
Gemma: put your name by it, but when it came to me doing it, I'd probably just be very cautious and do it anonymously [ anyway
Interviewer: [ right
Gemma: um. But for no apparent reason when you actually read those(h) examples, if you see what I mean
Grappling
with
anonymity
Ferne: I’d, I just, I, well I’ve already said it, I can see how it would help some people, that would perhaps be too nervous, or to embarrassed, but at the same time I can see the potential of the trouble
Allow or DENY!
Denise: So, I think you just have to, just respect people, and just say, ' Right, okay, will give you the option, and if some people want to use it to have a good bitch about people, then they can, but other people can use it, and, I think most people know how to skip things, don't they?
Elly: so you'd still track that person, you know, you could bar them if you wanted to
Interviewer: Right
Elly: but they don't have to use their names, so it could be, you know, anything, Fluffy, whatever, you [know
Alternatives or strategies to mitigate threats
Authenticity
Sensitivity
Clarity