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标题：Hiding in Plain Sight: Street artists online
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作者：Kim Barbour
期刊名称：PLATFORM : Journal of Media and Communication
电子版ISSN：1836-5132
出版年度：2013
卷号：5
期号：1
出版社：University of Melbourne
摘要：Identity and privacy concerns related to social media are the subject of widespreadacademic enquiry and mass media reporting. Although in most circumstances academicresearch tends to present identity play and online self-presentation as positive, mediareporting in Australia makes much of the risks of identity theft, privacy breaches andonline predators. This research explores the phenomenological experience of creating anonline persona, focusing particularly on street artists. For street artists, the threat ofunwanted exposure has to be balanced with the positive implications of sharing theircreative work outside its geographical and temporal constraints. I argue that streetartists use complex persona-creation strategies in order to both protect and promotethemselves. The two street artists discussed in this article experience their engagementwith social media and digital networks in ways that offer new insight into theopportunities and problems associated with the presentation of a persona online