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What is Designing Anonymity about?

Creating anonymity means cutting connections. A common goal in this context is to prevent accountability. This prevention of accountability can be problematic, for example, if it leads to delinquents remaining undetected. However, imputability can also provide protection against discrimination. In medical, religious or legal matters, this is of fundamental importance. Thus, when individuals actively establish anonymity, they do so mostly because they want to prevent certain information about them, that is, sensitive and/or compromising information, from being associated with their identities. By remaining inaccessible as individuals with respect to certain information about them, they can engage in forms of exchange that would otherwise be impossible for them. Examples include practices of exchange in (self-organized) therapy groups, acting out stigmatized sexual preferences, the role of anonymity in the performing arts, or political resistance movements. Given the variety of examples in which personal anonymity is important, it is not surprising that it is primarily these personal dimensions that are the focus of current debates about the increasing precariousness of anonymity in

Author

Helm, Paula

Published

2021

Language

EN