What is it about?
We discuss the challenges and potential solutions related to fostering healthy online discussions and mitigating malicious behavior, particularly in anonymous online spaces. This paper suggests exploring an online comment history disclosure system as a means to encourage digital citizenship behaviors while preserving anonymity
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Why is it important?
This paper underscores the significance of finding effective solutions that encourage digital citizenship behaviors without compromising users' anonymity or freedom of speech. An online comment-history disclosure system provides users with access to their accumulated comment histories, helping them perceive that their digital identity is built upon their past behaviors. Our findings show that this system can effectively induce digital citizenship behaviors while retaining their anonymity.
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As online space increasingly becomes a large part of our real world, we are experiencing both the advantages and disadvantages of open and anonymous online space. As this article shows, I believe that the reconstructed (but still anonymous) self from our digital footage can become much more than just a set of information and can contribute to decreasing disadvantages while maintaining advantages.
Jinyoung Min
Chung-Ang University
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This page is a summary of: A Small Clue Made of Fragmented Pieces, Communications of the ACM, March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3624714.
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