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041	0		_aEnglish
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100	1		_aJarke, Juliane _4edt
700	1		_aBreiter, Andreas _4edt
700	1		_aJarke, Juliane _4oth
700	1		_aBreiter, Andreas _4oth
245	1	0	_aThe Datafication of Education
260			_bTaylor & Francis _c2019
300			_a1 electronic resource (130 p.)
506	0		_aOpen Access _2star _fUnrestricted online access
520			_a"This paper considers the social value of anonymity in online university student communities, through the presentation of research which tracked the final year of life of the social media application Yik Yak. Yik Yak was an anonymous, geosocial mobile application launched in 2013 which, at its peak in 2014, was used by around two million students in the US and UK. The research we report here is significant as a mixed method study tracing the final year of the life of this app in a large UK university between 2016 and 2017. The paper uses computational and ethnographic methods to understand what might be at stake in the loss of anonymity within university student communities in a datafied society. Countering the most common argument made against online anonymity – its association with hate speech and victimisation – the paper draws on recent conceptual work on the social value of anonymity to argue that anonymity online in this context had significant value for the communities that use it. This study of a now-lost social network constitutes a valuable portrait by which we might better understand our current predicament in relation to anonymity, its perceived value and its growing impossibility."
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546			_aEnglish
650		7	_aEducation _2bicssc
653			_aEducation
653			_adatafication
856	4	0	_awww.oapen.org _uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30699 _70 _zDOAB: description of the publication
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