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Cyberculture has sparked identity crisis on the Internet communicative platforms like blogs and other social media sites. It is fashionable to hide behind anonymous posting and post offensive or distasteful images, videos, texts, and audio purportedly meant to unveil what may not be in the open. At the same time, it is not possible to post comments using your true identity and expect that your privacy will not be compromised one way or the other. This is the conundrum that online communication has placed before us. With new media technology there is nothing private online anymore. Whatever is clicked and sent over the airwaves, be it on a secured site or an open site goes into the cloud sever and somebody somewhere is reading, watching, and archiving it.
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Langmia, K. (2016). Cyberculture and Identity. In: Globalization and Cyberculture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47584-4_8
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