Location
Library 2025
Event Type
Presentation
Start Date
6-5-2024 7:30 PM
End Date
6-5-2024 8:00 PM
Description
With the tides of modernity, the internet offers people the chance to communicate to their friends, families and to the world. Through the growing influence of social media, information is easily accessible in various forms such as articles, advertisements and memes, thus predisposing their social biases. In order to promote inspiration and change, activists use social media to awaken social media users by highlighting the national and global inequalities. However, Rider University professor Dr. John Suler speculates the online disinhibition effect, the unrestrained means of online communication, strengthens social polarization and online deception. To find the extent of the online disinhibition effect, I examine the hashtags wars between activist groups Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter/Blue Lives Matter. By analyzing the inconsistencies between social media activism and socio-political reforms/voting, the research finds that the online disinhibition effect promotes social tribalization rather than empathizing with opposing beliefs as it paradoxically narrows their perception of their surroundings and feeds their confirmation bias.
Faculty Sponsor: Prof. David Goldberg
PowerPoint Presentation: Analysis of the Online Disinhibition Effect
Analysis of the online disinhibition effect through activist groups Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter/Blue Lives Matter
Library 2025
With the tides of modernity, the internet offers people the chance to communicate to their friends, families and to the world. Through the growing influence of social media, information is easily accessible in various forms such as articles, advertisements and memes, thus predisposing their social biases. In order to promote inspiration and change, activists use social media to awaken social media users by highlighting the national and global inequalities. However, Rider University professor Dr. John Suler speculates the online disinhibition effect, the unrestrained means of online communication, strengthens social polarization and online deception. To find the extent of the online disinhibition effect, I examine the hashtags wars between activist groups Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter/Blue Lives Matter. By analyzing the inconsistencies between social media activism and socio-political reforms/voting, the research finds that the online disinhibition effect promotes social tribalization rather than empathizing with opposing beliefs as it paradoxically narrows their perception of their surroundings and feeds their confirmation bias.
Faculty Sponsor: Prof. David Goldberg