SaTC: CORE: Medium: Collaborative: Measuring the Value of Anonymous Online Participation

SaTC：核心：媒介：协作：衡量匿名在线参与的价值

• 批准号: 2031951
• 负责人: Rachel Greenstadt
• 金额: $ 59.48万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-05-01 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2031951&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SaTC; CORE; Medium; Collaborative; Measuring; SaTC; CORE; Medium; Collaborative; Measuring

Many ordinary people desire anonymous communication for good reason, such as to keep their medical histories confidential or their finances to themselves. People in totalitarian countries may want to communicate about their views anonymously. This project could enable anonymous participation in spaces like Wikipedia and Reddit, while avoiding the negative social behaviors for these online communities of such participation. This research examines the trade-offs in using users' identifiability to reduce bad behavior on online sites versus allowing anonymity, which could allow some users to participate and possibly contribute valuable content without fear of reprisal. The empirical research will clarify the effects of online identifiability and anonymity in influencing the production of counter-normative versus useful behavior, and explore ways to introduce accountability into anonymous speech. The research could have potential use for policy, and online communities and libraries. The project also includes research experiences for teachers. The research uses experiments to understand the effects of anonymity on contributions and others' judgments, and qualitative research to understand service providers' and users' beliefs about the threats associated with identified and anonymous participation. The proposed software development has the purpose of reducing inappropriate behavior by uncovering only identifying information that predicts bad behavior. In addition, the empirical results will help answer fundamental questions in social psychology about when anonymity is valuable and when it encourages inappropriate behavior.

许多普通人有充分的理由希望匿名交流，例如将其病史保密或财务保密。极权国家的人们可能想匿名就自己的观点进行交流。该项目可以使匿名参与Wikipedia和Reddit等空间，同时避免了这些参与的这些在线社区的负面社交行为。这项研究研究了使用用户的可识别性来减少在线站点上的不良行为与允许匿名性的权衡，这可以使某些用户能够参与并可能贡献有价值的内容而不必担心被报复。实证研究将阐明在线可识别性和匿名性在影响相反规范和有用行为的产生的影响，并探索将问责制引入匿名语音的方法。这项研究可能在政策以及在线社区和图书馆中使用。该项目还包括针对教师的研究经验。该研究使用实验来了解匿名性对贡献和其他判断的影响以及定性研究，以了解服务提供商和用户对与已确定和匿名参与相关的威胁的信念。提出的软件开发目的是通过仅识别预测不良行为的信息来减少不当行为。此外，经验结果将有助于回答社会心理学中有关匿名性何时有价值以及何时鼓励不当行为的基本问题。