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Wang, Zuoming. "Anonymity Effects and Implications in the Social Identity Model of Deindividuation: From Crowd to Computer-Mediated Communication" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, San Francisco, CA, May 23, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p173006_index.html>

Wang, Z. , 2007-05-23 "Anonymity Effects and Implications in the Social Identity Model of Deindividuation: From Crowd to Computer-Mediated Communication" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, San Francisco, CA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p173006_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Anonymity, an important feature of computer-mediated communication (CMC), is embedded in this new technology. With the penetration of the Internet in society, many daily activities involve online interactions using email, list serves, instant messaging, chat rooms, bulletin boards, and video games. Anonymity, exemplified in those online activities, affects both the task and social aspects of online communication including information exchange, decision making, and relationship development. Interest in the effects of anonymity on identity issues is growing fast with an increasing diversity of empirical studies. In particular, research on deindividuation and its application in the online environment using the Social Identity Model of Deindividuation (SIDE) (Reicher, Spears, & Postmes, 1995) is influential and has started to snowball. However, given the fact that the definition and operationalization of anonymity are not agreed-upon among researchers, it poses a problem for generalizing across the results. This review examines the effects of anonymity on human behavior. It outlines how the prior literature has attempted to address this issue and how the SIDE model has developed as an attempt to tackle this question. More importantly, it discusses a framework describing the multidimensions of anonymity in CMC (McLeod, 1997), and subsequently raised 5 propositions mostly inspired by this framework. Furthermore, using McLeod’s framework, this review evaluates SIDE studies with regard to their anonymity manipulations. This critique reveals possible future research directions for refining the SIDE model and better studying the effect of anonymity in CMC.

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