[Air-L] conceptions of anonymity and follow up on chat roulette

[Seda Guerses]

has anybody been working on the difference between feeling anonymous  
and technical understandings of anonymity and re-identification, and  
how to relate these two things? i know sherry turkle wrote about  
anonymity on the internet long time ago and inspired much (critical)  
work, but i do not know of any recent works outside of the security/ 
privacy studies which often pose users as being naive/uncaring and  
identity as something fixed.

i had to come back to the question today after colleagues posted  
information about a site which automatically maps ip addresses of the  
chatrouletters to approximate locations on a google map together with  
a screenshot of the chatterer.
http://www.chatroulettemap.com/
more information can be found here:
http://www.geekosystem.com/chatroulette-map-anonymity/.

a more general article on ubiquitous video streaming is here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/mar/19/streaming-video-online-privacy

any tips or thoughts on this matter are much appreciated.
cheers,
s.


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