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

许多普通人希望匿名通信有很好的理由，例如对他们的病史保密或对他们的财务状况保密。极权主义国家的人们可能希望匿名交流他们的观点。这个项目可以使匿名参与维基百科和Reddit等空间，同时避免这些在线社区的负面社会行为。这项研究考察了使用用户的可识别性来减少在线网站上的不良行为与允许匿名性之间的权衡，匿名性可以让一些用户参与并可能贡献有价值的内容，而不必担心报复。实证研究将阐明在线可识别性和匿名性在影响反规范行为与有用行为的产生方面的作用，并探索如何将问责制引入匿名言论。这项研究可能对政策、在线社区和图书馆有潜在的用途。该项目还包括教师的研究经验。该研究使用实验来了解匿名对贡献和他人判断的影响，并使用定性研究来了解服务提供商和用户对与身份和匿名参与相关的威胁的看法。所提出的软件开发的目的是通过仅揭示预测不良行为的识别信息来减少不当行为。此外，实证结果将有助于回答社会心理学中的基本问题，即何时匿名是有价值的，何时它会鼓励不适当的行为。

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.