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

[Ronald E. Rice]

Gary T. Marx has some great articles on conceptual distinctions about 
anonymity, privacy, and volunteered privacy disclosures. 
http://web.mit.edu/gtmarx/www/garyhome.html
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Ronald E. Rice
Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication
Co-Director, Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media
President of the International Communication Association 2006-2007
Dept. of  Communication, 4005 Social Sciences & Media Studies Bldg.
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020
Ph: 805-893-8696; Fax: 805-893-7102
rrice at comm.ucsb.edu
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Seda Guerses" <sguerses at esat.kuleuven.be>
To: <air-l at aoir.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 6:11 PM
Subject: [Air-L] conceptions of anonymity and follow up on chat roulette


>
> 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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