Anonymity

Julie Zhuo’s essay, Where Anonymity Breeds Contempt, does not effectively reach content providers because of Zhuo’s lack of consideration to the provider’s own experiences on the topic of trolling. Throughout her essay she argues that content providers need to take control over trolling by not allowing anonymous commenters, watching over comments, and asking users to report trolls. By following these steps, Zhuo believes that trolling will decrease. Trolling is when someone makes hateful or rude…

approaches the internet community. Many individuals are users of social media sites such as Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Through these sites, a user creates another persona for their identity. This new identity involves the concept of anonymity. Anonymity is defined as the quality or state of being unknown to most people. Users of certain social media sites have the…

information or data without the user’s approval. Privacy and anonymity can be broken up into several different subtopics, depending on what areas of technology they affect. Data anonymity focuses on personal devices such as tablets and smart phones, the data collected on these devices need to be protected or deleted, sensitive information in the wrong hands could be detrimental to the individual. Like data anonymity, connectivity anonymity allows users have to take steps protecting their…

expression of concepts that are commonly known. Anonymity is a feeling that most urban dwellers experience. This can be seen on any form of public transit where hundreds of people will be crammed into a train and yet there will be silence. As Tonkiss notes, this requires a sort of "special urban trick" that urban dwellers perform to keep their distance socially despite being in close physical proximity (2003, 301). The result of this trick, however, is anonymity where urban dweller appear to be…

belief of Jesus Christ as the only savior life and their addicted world, as later this will change from God to a Higher Power to include everyone who felt the need for sobriety in their lives (Kurtz 50). Kurtz asserts that Bill Wilson, “embraced anonymity, and strove to avoid offending anyone who might need its program (50)”. In other words, Bill Wilson will constitute that anyone can be part of Alcoholic Anonymous without any limitations of religious beliefs, age, gender, and social status this…

and employees fable by Patrick Lencioni. Lencioni’s book is about how to know when a job is miserable and how to fix it. There are three signs to detect a miserable job. These three signs are anonymity, irrelevance, and immeasurement. Anonymity is the first sign of being at a miserable job. Anonymity can basically be described as being anonymous in the work place (not being known). The problem with this is that humans have a continuous desire to be purposeful and to be recognized. When…

has been a controversial issue for decades. The issue of which if some opinions shouldn’t remain openly shared. Should online hate speech become censored completely, have restrictions, or is it protected by the right of free speech? The use of anonymity can ensure protection of free speech in some situations as said by Marcel Rosenbach and…

known as “trolling”, or the deliberate act of attempting to irritate someone through making malicious comments. Some trolls, empowered by their anonymity, have driven individuals to suicide or tormented the families of murder victims. Julie Zhuo of the New York Times discusses the phenomenon of anonymity licensing poor behavior in her article “Where Anonymity Breeds Contempt”. In the piece, Zhuo analyzes several examples of extremely harmful trolling, granting insight into the minds of people…

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…

from anonymous persons providing information about crimes. Crime Stoppers receive their information through anonymous Crime Stoppers tips, by either secure tip lines or secured web connection protected by professional program coordinator. To ensure anonymity each caller is given a code number. If the information acquired from the anonymous person leads to an arrest, then the person can receive a cash reward of up to $1000. It is the responsibility of the citizens to form local Crime Stoppers…