Ambient digital identity construction
Linguistic mechanisms for anonymous video viewers to craft the self
This project contributes to the scholarship on digital identity work by examining the linguistic mechanisms of ambient identity construction in fully anonymous online environments. It investigates how video viewers construct textual personae by leaving massive anonymous comments in danmu, a viewing-and-commenting system that synchronously posts comments onto a video screen as it plays.
*Who are you when leaving anonymous comments online?*
For more details about this project, check my recent research outputs.