Dissociative Anonymity
Definition
The sense that one's online identity is separable from one's offline self, which lowers the felt risk of social or legal consequence and is one of the mechanisms space transition theory borrows from online disinhibition research.
Related terms
- Cyber-Criminology
- K. Jaishankar's field, defined as the study of the causation of crimes that occur in cyberspace and their impact on physical space,...
- Identity Flexibility
- The ability to construct, alter or discard an online persona at will, which lets a person present differently online than they would...
- Space Transition Theory
- Jaishankar's 2008 theory explaining offending as a product of movement between physical space and cyberspace, set out across seven postulates rather than...
- Conforming and Non-Conforming Behaviour
- The theory's core distinction between behaviour that follows a person's usual social norms and behaviour that departs from them, used to describe...
- Conforming Behaviour
- Behaviour that follows the social norms of the space a person occupies, which the theory treats as a function of the space...
- Non-Conforming Behaviour
- Behaviour that breaks social norms; the theory's central claim is that a person can move from conforming to non-conforming, or the reverse,...
- Online Disinhibition
- A term from psychologist John Suler describing the loosening of ordinary social restraint online, arising from anonymity, invisibility, delayed feedback and other...
- Online Disinhibition Effect
- John Suler's 2004 concept that humans behave with reduced restraint online compared with face-to-face, driven by six factors that loosen accountability and...
Explained in these topics
- Space Transition Theory and Cyber-Criminology
- Space Transition Theory and Cyber-Criminology (UGC-NET Unit IV)The feeling that an online identity cannot be traced back to one's offline self, which lowers the perceived risk of social or legal consequence.