TY - GEN
T1 - Flaming, balkanization, and "Burning-up"
T2 - 4th Int. Conf. on Education and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications, EISTA 2006, Jointly with the 2nd Int. Conf. on Social and Organizational Informatics and Cybernetics, SOIC 2006 and 4th Int. Conf. on PISTA 2006
AU - Ohya, Takehiro
PY - 2006/1/1
Y1 - 2006/1/1
N2 - In this article, the author tries to examine phenomena called "Enjou" (burning-up) in Japanese, in which certain blogs or bulletin boards are attacked by anonymous mobs with criticism and insults The author then examines the difference of these phenomena from other previous troubles, and suggests that the cause may somewhat from certain characteristics of Japanese internet, especially high anonymity. The author, however, points out that not all anonymity is bad. and it could be useful to classify the objectors into 4 categories. As a result, the author suggests that a self-reinforcing spiral between "Bad Guys" is responsible to these problematic phenomena and we should continue to examine the process.
AB - In this article, the author tries to examine phenomena called "Enjou" (burning-up) in Japanese, in which certain blogs or bulletin boards are attacked by anonymous mobs with criticism and insults The author then examines the difference of these phenomena from other previous troubles, and suggests that the cause may somewhat from certain characteristics of Japanese internet, especially high anonymity. The author, however, points out that not all anonymity is bad. and it could be useful to classify the objectors into 4 categories. As a result, the author suggests that a self-reinforcing spiral between "Bad Guys" is responsible to these problematic phenomena and we should continue to examine the process.
KW - Blog
KW - Flaming
KW - Internet
KW - Japan
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84896980959
SN - 9806560809
SN - 9789806560802
T3 - EISTA 2006 - 4th Int. Conf. on Education and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications, Jointly with SOIC 2006 - 2nd Int. Conf. on SOIC and PISTA 2006 - 4th Int. Conf. on PISTA, Proceedings
SP - 294
EP - 299
BT - EISTA 2006 - 4th Int. Conf. on Education and Information Systems
PB - International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, IIIS
Y2 - 20 July 2006 through 23 July 2006
ER -