Chapter 4 The social value of anonymity on campus

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dc.alternateIdentifier9780429341359
dc.alternateIdentifier10.1080/17439884.2019.1583672
dc.creatorBayne, Sian
dc.creatorConnelly, Louise
dc.creatorGroverc, Claire
dc.creatorOsborned, Nicola
dc.creatorTobinc, Richard
dc.creatorBeswicke, Emily
dc.creatorRouhanif, Lilinaz
dc.date2019-11-12 11:54:41
dc.date2020-04-01T09:30:39Z
dc.date2020-04-01T09:30:39Z
dc.date2019
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-25T13:41:50Z
dc.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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dc.identifierhttps://www.routledge.com/The-Datafication-of-Education/Jarke-Breiter/p/book/9780367357191
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/19486
dc.identifierdoi10.1080/17439884.2019.1583672
dc.imprintRoutledge
dc.languageeng
dc.licenseConditionn/a
dc.pages16
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.publisherThe Datafication of Education
dc.publisherRoutledge
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dc.relationisbn9780429341359
dc.resourceTypechapter
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.sourceChapter4_9780367357191.pdf
dc.subjectAnonymity
dc.subjectephemerality
dc.subjectsocial media
dc.subjectYik Yak
dc.subjectcommunity
dc.subjectcampus
dc.subjectdatafication
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education
dc.titleChapter 4 The social value of anonymity on campus

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