VIRTUAL COMMUNITY

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SPEAKING OUT

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DANGEROUS...OR LIBERATING?

SULER'S DISINHIBITIVE EFFECT

• You don't know me (disassociation)
• You can't see me (invisibility)
• See you later (asyncronicity)

SULER'S DISINHIBITIVE EFFECT (CONT.)

• It's all in my head (solipsistic introjection)
• It's just a game (dissociative imagination)
• We're equals (minimizing authority)

GRIEFING IN SECOND LIFE

CHESNEY, COYNE, LOGAN & MADDEN (2004)

• "Unacceptable, persistent negative behavior which disrupted enjoyment of the environment"
• Experienced by 95% of the sample with 38% as frequent victims and 25% classified as perpetrators.

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• No differences emerged rates between gender (real life and second life), age and time

REASONS FOR GOOD

4chan and m00t
http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_m00t_poole_the_case_for_anonymity_onli...