Anonymity

that the female players got by the male players while playing the online games. The research shows that some male players often tend to express their masculinity and dominance over female online more than they can when they are offline. The half anonymity that most online games have creates problems, and the original intention soon gets lost ("Women Face Harassment in Online Gaming…

The Internet is frequently expanding everyday and becoming an omnipresent factor in today’s society with new online technologies and applications for people to interact socially. It has been argued that the Internet is creating a generation of anti social youth, specifically young people ranging between ages of 16-24 years old. The term ‘anti-social’ refers to someone who is unwilling to communicate and associate with others, acting in an unfriendly manner to their peers and being opposed to…

“In some mediated communication situations, interactants often have no direct knowledge of one another.” (Ruben & Stewart, p.187) That is the anonymity summed up in a sentence. Talking to my dad he was telling me about how today he can just make a call to interview someone without meting them in person. He said phone interviews have their advantages and disadvantages. “It feels like you are talking…

being supported by their anonymity and by legal loopholes. Perpetrators usually harass the people whom they feel are easy targets, often times they…

social conditions, such as anonymity, can affect one's choices. One part of the article talked about an experiment done back in 1974 by Harvard anthropologist John Watson in which he evaluated twenty-three cultures to determine whether or not warriors who changed their appearance caused more harm to their victims. The experiment showed they did due to the feeling of anonymity. The article states "What's more, a person's anonymity cab be influenced by action in an anonymity-conferring environment…

The most common ethical concern raised with experiments is deception. Often, you do not want to share all of the details with the subjects because it may cause them to change their behavior on purpose, thereby reducing the effectiveness of the experiment measuring what it set out to measure. To avoid informing the youth offenders that the art therapy program is only administered to half of the sample group and is an experiment, I would effectively debrief them after the fact, in this instance…

used the app to make sexiest, racist, or threatening comments. First and Foremost, people used the Yik Yak to make sexist, racist, or threatening comments. “Harry Zieve-when, 22, senior at Middlebury, says anonymity is especially crucial in college, where students race or gender.” But anonymity doesn’t always bring out the people. “ Colleges like…

As an inventor, Otti Berger is not so much concerned with expressing her subjectivity or inner self but concerned with inventing a new weaving process and protecting her identity and invention through patenting. Even though her road to patent wasn’t easy, Berger ultimately received two patents: one in Germany in 1934 and one in London in 1937 (p.56). Textile’s characteristics, such as functional, unremarkable, sometimes generic and mass-produced, often rendered textiles unattributed. Her…

to preserve some of the family’s anonymity. As the owner of Gail Myers Public Relations, LLC, Gail Myers has over 30 years of experience in public relations. “When the family contacted me and asked for my help in dealing with the media, I worked with them to craft a statement,” Myers emphasized the importance of having a trusting relationship with the news media outlets and having an updated media list. Once Myers made it clear the family wanted their anonymity, most…

onerousness of the system is a safeguard. Having to relive the details of a traumatic event over and over in the process of a criminal investigation is no doubt a difficult ordeal for a victim of sexual assault. However, removing the promise of anonymity would weed out a great number of frivolous accusers and allow the resources of the court to focus on a greater number of cases where there was a great harm done to the accuser and/or the accused continues to pose a legitimate public safety…