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We the undersigned: anonymous dissent and the struggle for personal identity in online petitions

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dc.contributor.advisor DiSalvo, Carl
dc.contributor.author Riley, Will en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Bogost, Ian
dc.contributor.committeeMember Klein, Hans
dc.contributor.committeeMember Murray, Janet
dc.contributor.committeeMember Pearce, Celia
dc.contributor.department Literature, Communication, and Culture en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-06-08T18:44:23Z
dc.date.available 2009-06-08T18:44:23Z
dc.date.issued 2009-02-12 en_US
dc.description.abstract Anonymous signatures pose a significant threat to the legitimacy of the online petition as a persuasive form of political communication. While anonymous signatures address some privacy concerns for online petitioners, they often fail to identify petitioners as numerically distinct and socially relevant persons, Since anonymous signatures often fail to personally identify online petitioners, they often fail to provide sufficient reason for targeted political authorities to review and respond to their grievances. To recover the personal rhetoric of the online petition in a way that strikes a balance between the publicity and privacy concerns of petitioners, we should reformat online petitions as pseudonymous social networks of personal testimony between petitioners and targeted political authorities. To this end, the pseudonymous signatures of online petitions should incorporate social frames, co-authored complaints and demands, multimedia voice, and revisable support. en_US
dc.description.degree M.S. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28102
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Digital identity en_US
dc.subject Digital media en_US
dc.subject Digital democracy en_US
dc.subject Political communication en_US
dc.subject Petitions en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Petitions
dc.subject.lcsh Dissenters
dc.subject.lcsh Online data processing
dc.subject.lcsh Online social networks
dc.subject.lcsh Digital media Political aspects
dc.title We the undersigned: anonymous dissent and the struggle for personal identity in online petitions en_US
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local.contributor.advisor DiSalvo, Carl
local.contributor.corporatename School of Literature, Media, and Communication
local.contributor.corporatename Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
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