With the emergence of the internet and social media. We rapidly adopt a different facade for each site. This is akin to the offline identities that we construct for ourselves. This is comparable to an unlikely situation, whereby a person would be in the same room with their different groups of friends, colleagues, ex-partners, current partner, immediate and extended family members, all at the same time. However, this situation becomes the norm when it comes to social networking like Facebook and Twitter. They merge previously discrete groups into one singular platform. Facebook pushes the use of real names and it is one of the revolutionary influences that brought about “a real name Internet” (Nagel & Frith 2015). This resulted into the breakdown
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He also made a valid and realistic point, mentioning that even in public settings, people still maintain discrete social contexts separated by space. Hence, the pros for pseudonymity and anonymity were because it able them to freely participate online without the fears of ‘context collapse’ that companied with using ‘real names’. However, the gradual entrenchment of using ‘real names’ will grow because of the media and technological convergence. These two factors brought about “new practices and opportunities” (Boyd 2008). When the structure of disparate social contexts collapsed into a uniform platform, social convergence emerged to fill its place instead. Henceforth, it is safe to assume that social convergence and context collapse are comparably referring to the same …show more content…
(2013) "Hiding in plain sight: Street Artists Online." PLATFORM: journal of Media and Communications, 86-96.
Beyer, J. (2012, December 6, 2012). "“What does anonymity mean? Reddit, activism, and ‘creepshots’,”." Retrieved 22 February 2013, 2013, from http://www.jlbeyer.com/what-does-online-anonymity-mean-reddit-activism-and-creepshots/.
Boyd, D. (2008). Facebook's Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.
Donath, J. (1999). “Identity and deception in the virtual community,”. Communities in cyberspace. M. Smith, Kollock, Peter.,. London, Routledge: 29-59.
Nagel, E., Frith, J., (2015) "Anonymity, pseudonymity, and the agency of online identity: Examining the social practices of r/Gonewild." First Monday 20,
He also made a valid and realistic point, mentioning that even in public settings, people still maintain discrete social contexts separated by space. Hence, the pros for pseudonymity and anonymity were because it able them to freely participate online without the fears of ‘context collapse’ that companied with using ‘real names’. However, the gradual entrenchment of using ‘real names’ will grow because of the media and technological convergence. These two factors brought about “new practices and opportunities” (Boyd 2008). When the structure of disparate social contexts collapsed into a uniform platform, social convergence emerged to fill its place instead. Henceforth, it is safe to assume that social convergence and context collapse are comparably referring to the same …show more content…
(2013) "Hiding in plain sight: Street Artists Online." PLATFORM: journal of Media and Communications, 86-96.
Beyer, J. (2012, December 6, 2012). "“What does anonymity mean? Reddit, activism, and ‘creepshots’,”." Retrieved 22 February 2013, 2013, from http://www.jlbeyer.com/what-does-online-anonymity-mean-reddit-activism-and-creepshots/.
Boyd, D. (2008). Facebook's Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.
Donath, J. (1999). “Identity and deception in the virtual community,”. Communities in cyberspace. M. Smith, Kollock, Peter.,. London, Routledge: 29-59.
Nagel, E., Frith, J., (2015) "Anonymity, pseudonymity, and the agency of online identity: Examining the social practices of r/Gonewild." First Monday 20,