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1. Benjamin Mako Hill (mako@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2019 01:56:11 UTC Benjamin Mako Hill

   Check out my new paper documents how online collaboration platforms imagine anonymous users in ways that are strikingly differently than anonymous users see themselves. Paper was led by Nora McDonald w/ Rachel Greenstadt and Andrea Forte. #CHI2019 https://blog.communitydata.science/new-research-on-how-anonymity-is-perceived-in-open-collaboration/

   • Benjamin Mako Hill (mako@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2019 01:56:52 UTC Benjamin Mako Hill

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     One potential source of this difference is that while many online communities set norms about anonymous participation openly, the people who are blocked/deterred by privacy concerns that are incompatible w/ the status quo are simply never heard.