02298namaa2200337uu 4500001001000000003000600010006001900016007001500035008004300050040001700093041000800110042000700118720002400125245003400149260002700183300003100210336002600241337002600267338003600293506005100329520121900380540006301599546001201662653001701674653001401691653006301705720002601768720002601794720002401820856011601844doab30699oapenm     o  d        cr|mn|---annan||||||||s2019    xx |||||o     ||| engng d  aoapencoapen0 aeng  adc1 aJarke, Juliane4edt00aThe Datafication of Education  bTaylor & Francisc2019  a1 online resource (130 p.)  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier0 aFree-to-readfUnrestricted online access2star  a"This paper considers the social value of anonymity in online university student communities, through the presentation of research which tracked the final year of life of the social media application Yik Yak. Yik Yak was an anonymous, geosocial mobile application launched in 2013 which, at its peak in 2014, was used by around two million students in the US and UK. The research we report here is significant as a mixed method study tracing the final year of the life of this app in a large UK university between 2016  and 2017. The paper uses computational and ethnographic methods to understand what might be at stake in the loss of anonymity within university student communities in a datafied society. Countering the most common argument made against online anonymity - its association with hate speech and victimisation - the paper draws on recent conceptual work on the social value of anonymity to argue that anonymity online in this context had significant value for the communities that use it. This study of a now-lost social network constitutes a valuable portrait by which we might better understand our current predicament in relation to anonymity, its perceived value and its growing impossibility."  aAll rights reserveduhttp://oapen.org/content/about-rights  aEnglish  adatafication  aEducation  athema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education1 aBreiter, Andreas4edt1 aBreiter, Andreas4oth1 aJarke, Juliane4oth40uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/3069970zFree-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication