Anonymity and Self-Disclosure on Weblogs

By Hua Qian, Craig R. Scott. J. Comput. Mediat. Commun., 2007

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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The 'Privacy Paradox' in the Social Web: The Impact of Privacy Concerns, Individual Characteristics, and the Perceived Social Relevance on Different Forms of Self-Disclosure1 (2014, background): “It indicates that personal experiences and private information make up the majority of blog content (Lenhart & Fox, 2006; Qian & Scott, 2007; Viegas, 2005).”
Knowledge Collaboration in Online Communities (2011, background): “When people do not share social relationships, participants do not necessarily compensate by disclosing more personal information (Qian and Scott 2007).”
The Social Dimension of Blogging about Health: Health Blogging, Social Support, and Well-being (2011, background): “The genre of blogging also makes appropriate and invites extended self disclosure from a single person over time (Herring et al., 2004; Qian & Scott, 2007; Sundar et al., 2007).”
Generational differences in content generation in social media: The roles of the gratifications sought and of narcissism (2013, background): “…the need to belong, predicted by demographic and cultural factors, and the other is the socio-psychological need for self-presentation management and relationship construction, predicted by personal traits, such as the four narcissistic personalities (Nadkarni & Hofmann, 2012; Qian & Scott, 2007).”
Anonymity and Online Self-Disclosure: A Meta-Analysis (2019, background): “Additional studies on bloggers reveal that increased visual anonymity is associated with less self-disclosure, wherein bloggers disclose more when they are visually identified (Hollenbaugh & Everett, 2013; Qian & Scott, 2007).”
Information Privacy Research: An Interdisciplinary Review (2011, background): “…35 No. 4/December 2011 995 Smith et al./Information Privacy Research Anonymity: Anonymity is the ability to conceal a person’s identity (Camp 1999; Marx 1999; Qian and Scott 2007; Rensel et al. 2006; Zwick and Dholakia 2004), which is central for the information collected for statistical purposes.”
The benign online disinhibition effect: Could situational factors induce self-disclosure and prosocial behaviors? (2015, background): “An earlier study by Qian and Scott (2007), however, found that visual anonymity led to more disclosure, while discursive anonymity was related less self-disclosure.”
Enhancing perceived interactivity through network externalities: An empirical study on micro-blogging service satisfaction and continuance intention (2012, background): “The disclosure of such personal activities on micro-blogs results in increased interconnectivity, because self-disclosure is an important variable in the development of intimacy [50].”
Factors Affecting Bloggers' Knowledge Sharing: An Investigation Across Gender (2011, background): “Many blogs serve as a sort of online personal diary, and many of them contain privacy-sensitive content [86] such as daily diaries, personal photos, and even home or work addresses.”
Effects of anonymity, invisibility, and lack of eye-contact on toxic online disinhibition (2012, background): “Also in the blogging arena, Qian and Scott (2007) found that anonymity had little impact on bloggers’ self-disclosure as reflected in their postings.”
Information privacy and correlates: an empirical attempt to bridge and distinguish privacy-related concepts (2013, methodology): “Technical anonymization mechanisms offer different degrees of anonymity (Kobsa & Schreck, 2003) with the options for individuals to be totally anonymous, pseudonymous, or identifiable (Nissenbaum, 1999; Qian & Scott, 2007).”