and welcome to my domain! I am in the PSU 2027 class with a major in communications and media studies. I enjoy writing and technology, and Com. and Media studies encapsulates a lot of stuff I am interested in learning. I was born and raised in Charlestown, New Hampshire, where I grew up playing soccer and basketball, mountain biking and snowboarding with my family, skating with my friends and spending too much time playing video games. My greatest passion is music, I’ve played drums since as far as I can remember, took piano lessons for a bit (most of which I forgot,) and started self-teaching myself guitar! I did band in percussion all four years of high school, and finally had the courage to join choir my junior year, as I always enjoyed singing but use to have a harder time singing in front of people.
The Online Disinhibtion Effect has been very interesting to learn about. I always knew the anonimity of the internet affected the way people interacted or how they interact with the internet, however I never knew there were whole studies on this effect, and the 7 factors that influence it. I found it really fascinating how the dissocative anonimity and invisibility of not only yourself, but others online, would casue people to be either more positive or more negative in their actions online. I also never thought about the positive end of things, as I’m used to the internet being a place where people are more likely to be rude, harsh, or view things more violent or grotesque then stuff they would view normally. One question I have is, is the Online Disinhibtion Effect more negative than postive? The outcome can lead to people being more positive, but it seems like people tend to be more negative because of it, how can we try to make it more positive than negative?
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