I posted this on my reddit account a few weeks ago. When reflecting through my history to find some funny content for this blog, I realised that a high percentage what I post is risqué or controversial. Essentially things I would never tell someone I didn’t know and trust because I would be worried about being treated differently (van der Nagel, 2013 p.6). So I entirely agree with the argument van der Nagel makes about the productiveness of anonymity. I asked for a knitting pattern that I wouldn’t have asked for if I wasn’t anonymous and people in the comments said they benefitted from the content as well.
nothingelsefits, Oct 27 2015, ‘Pattern help - would you just add a sock pattern to the bras/underwear?’ Visited 22 Nov 2015<https://www.reddit.com/r/knitting/comments/3qddro/pattern_help_would_you_just_add_a_sock_pattern_to/>.
van der Nagel, E 2013, ‘Faceless Bodies: Negotiating Technological and Cultural Codes on reddit gonewild’, Journal of Media Arts Culture, Volume 10, Melbourne, pp. 6.