Anonymity and authenticity on the web
Towards a new framework in internet onomastics
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The Nicknamen international (‘international usernames’) study
- 3.Usernames and self-naming practices online
- 4.Self-naming as a sociolinguistic practice: An attempt at a definition
- 4.1Formality and informality in online styles
- 4.2Usernames as curated authenticity?
- 4.3Username choice: Identity construction as positioning in relation to a community
- 5.Self-naming online as an identity-constitutive form of face-work
- 5.1Results of the questionnaire
- a.Mono-referenciality
- b.Self-representation
- c.Authentification – anonymisation
- d.Individualisation vs. group-convergence
- 6.Discussion and conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
-
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