Psychology of Cyberspace - The Online Disinhibition Effect

On the other hand, the disinhibition effect may not be so benign. Out spills rude language and harsh criticisms, anger, hatred, even threats. Or people explore the dark underworld of the internet, places of pornography and violence, places they would never visit in the real world. We might call this toxic disinhibition. You Don't Know Me (dissociative anonymity)As you move around the internet, most of the people you encounter can't easily tell who you are. As the character now becomes more elaborate and "real" within our minds, we may start to think, perhaps without being fully aware of it, that the typed-text conversation is all taking place within our heads, as if it's a dialogue between us and this character in our imagination - even as if we are authors typing out a play or a novel. Does the disinhibition effect release inner needs, emotions, and attributes that dwell beneath surface personality presentations?

Making Online Forums Work for Community Networks Making Online Forums Work for Community Networks Copyright © 1998 by David R. Woolley This article was written for the inaugural issue of the Association For Community Networking (AFCN) Newsletter. Online discussion forums have played a key role in community networks ever since the first such networks began to appear in the mid 1980′s. Forums permit direct interaction among community members. The terms “forum” and “conference” are used to refer to a wide variety of things, ranging from chat rooms to realtime video conferencing. For a successful online forum, several elements are essential: Clear purposeExperienced hostsInterested participantsGood software Clear Purpose The first step is to think carefully about why you want forums. People who simply enjoy online discussion for its own sake already have thousands of Web forums, Usenet newsgroups, and mailing lists to occupy their time. Start from a real problem or need, and then think about how (and whether!) Experienced Hosts Good Software 1.

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The NSTIC Debate Rages On June 28, 2011 at 1:53 pm | Identity Theft Crime, Identity Theft News | No comment A debate is raging on PopSci.com (the Web handle for Popular Science Magazine). It concerns the relative merits and demerits of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), an initiative unveiled earlier this year by the Obama administration. In favor of NSTIC is PopSci.com columnist Becky Ferreira. As she states in her June 28, 2011 contriution to the debate, she believes that it is very much needed, especially given the recent spate of hacks that have left such commercial behemoths as Sony, Citibank, and Sega scrambling to stem the massive leakage of their customers’ sensitive information. The “information ecosystem” that NSTIC would create Ferreira believes would vastly improve cyber-security, which finds itself in a deplorable state. Ferreira admits that NSTIC’s proposed “identity ecosystem” remains more an attractive idea than anything else.