@inproceedings{6458202496cd49f494efd46dd974be6e,
title = "Situated anonymity: Impacts of anonymity, ephemerality, and hyper-locality on social media",
abstract = "Anonymity, ephemerality, and hyper-locality are an uncommon set of features in the design of online communities. However, these features were key to Yik Yak's initial success and popularity. In an interview-based study, we found that these three features deeply affected the identity of the community as a whole, the patterns of use, and the ways users committed to this community. We conducted interviews with 18 Yik Yak users on an urban American university campus and found that these three focal design features contributed to casual commitment, transitory use, and emergent community identity. We describe situated anonymity, which is the result of anonymity, ephemerality, and hyper-locality coexisting as focal design features of an online community. This work extends our understanding of use and identity-versus-bond based commitment, which has implications for the design and study of other atypical online communities. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM.",
keywords = "Anonymity, Commitment, Community identity, Ephemerality, Hyper-locality, Online communities, Transitory use",
author = "Ari Schlesinger and Eshwar Chandrasekharan and Masden, {Christina A.} and Bruckman, {Amy S.} and Edwards, {W. Keith} and Grinter, {Rebecca E.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 ACM.; 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017 ; Conference date: 06-05-2017 Through 11-05-2017",
year = "2017",
month = may,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1145/3025453.3025682",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "6912--6924",
booktitle = "CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
address = "United States",
}