Boing Boing has published a fascinating exploration of chan culture – the society of “anons” that congregate around 4chan and its spinoffs – and the problems created when it clashes with, say, Twitter culture, as it did at the height of GamerGate:…
online identity
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Today we fight back against mass surveillance
Many of you will have seen something like this when you visit my blog today: And I’m far from alone. Here’s Antony Mayfield’s blog: And here’s Christian Payne’s: It’s not often that I use…
Peak Facebook and the end of monolithic online identity
Are people rejecting the idea of a single online identity mediated by a large online entity? Stowe Boyd thinks so: The Benthamite underpinnings of Facebook are becoming unpopular. Young people in particular don’t want their teachers, parents, employers, and…