http://www.ephemerajournal.org/ [image: The social productivity of anonymity] <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/sites/default/files/images/cover/17.2cover%28for%20web%29.png> May, 2017 ISBN 1473-2866 PDF of Issue [image: PDF icon] 17-2ephemera-june17.pdf <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/issue/17-2ephemera-june17.pdf> Keywords anonymity <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/keywords/anonymity> social productivity <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/keywords/social-productivity> surveillance <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/keywords/surveillance> transparency <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/keywords/transparency> In a process that started decades ago, a multiplicity of forces is creating a slow, but steadily rising storm against anonymity. Discourses of transparency and accountability often describe anonymity as a threat. Technologies such as the IP-address-based Internet, sensory devices, and machine learning techniques further undermine anonymous encounters. In an age of near ubiquitous surveillance, anonymity is under attack. But what is at stake in such discourses and developments? Based on the premise that anonymity is always socially productive and always socially produced, this special issue draws attention to anonymity as a social form that demands renewed attention. The contributions explore its temporalities, its transformative powers, and its entanglements with public spheres, property relations, and practices of person making. editorial <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/article-type/contribution-type-0> The social productivity of anonymity <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/social-productivity-anonymity> Götz Bachmann <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/g%C3%B6tz-bachmann> Michi Knecht <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/michi-knecht> Andreas Wittel <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/andreas-wittel> article <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/article-type/contribution-type> Immunity from the image: The right to privacy as an antidote to anonymous modernity <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/immunity-image-right-privacy-antidote-anonymous-modernity> Daniël de Zeeuw <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/dani%C3%ABl-de-zeeuw> article <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/article-type/contribution-type> The exposure of Kataryna: How Polish journalists and bloggers debate online anonymity <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/exposure-kataryna-how-polish-journalists-and-bloggers-debate-online-anonymity> Kornelia Trytko <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/kornelia-trytko> Andreas Wittel <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/andreas-wittel> article <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/article-type/contribution-type> On anonymity in disasters: Socio-technical practices in emergency management <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/anonymity-disasters-socio-technical-practices-emergency-management> Katrina Petersen <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/katrina-petersen> Monika Büscher <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/monika-b%C3%BCscher> Catherine Easton <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/catherine-easton> article <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/article-type/contribution-type> What can self-organised group therapy teach us about anonymity? <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/what-can-self-organised-group-therapy-teach-us-about-anonymity> Paula Helm <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/paula-helm> article <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/article-type/contribution-type> Archaeology of no names? The social productivity of anonymity in the archaeological information process <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/archaeology-no-names-social-productivity-anonymity-archaeological-information-process> Isto Huvila <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/isto-huvila> note <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/article-type/contribution-type-2> Against a personalisation of the self <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/against-personalisation-self> Renée Ridgway <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/ren%C3%A9e-ridgway> note <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/article-type/contribution-type-2> Images of anonymity <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/images-anonymity> Andreas Broeckmann <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/andreas-broeckmann> interview <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/article-type/contribution-type-3> The terms of anonymity: An interview with Marit Hansen, German data protection expert <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/terms-anonymity-interview-marit-hansen-german-data-protection-expert> Götz Bachmann <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/g%C3%B6tz-bachmann> Paula Bialski <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/paula-bialski> Marit Hansen <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/marit-hansen> review <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/article-type/contribution-type-1> The dark riders of the internet? <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/dark-riders-internet> Nils Zurawski <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/nils-zurawski> review <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/article-type/contribution-type-1> Transilient relations: Exploring the social in anonymity <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/transilient-relations-exploring-social-anonymity> Amelie Baumann <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/amelie-baumann> review <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/article-type/contribution-type-1> Crisis, critique and alternatives: Revolutionary politics as the lost substance of the left? <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/crisis-critique-and-alternatives-revolutionary-politics-lost-substance-left-0> Christian Huber <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/christian-huber> Vitor Hugo Klein Jr. <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/vitor-hugo-klein-jr> review <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/article-type/contribution-type-1> Information, cybernetics and the second industrial revolution <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/information-cybernetics-and-second-industrial-revolution> Thomas Swann <http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/thomas-swann>