The article starts speaking about how large the expanse of NSFW subreddits is, and keeps going to explain how many of them focus on Porn, generally naked bodies and what the statistics are of who and when people are using these subreddits. It focuses on the stats of who is posting and who is looking at them.
The article is important because the topic of people posting nudes among others pictures online is the very topic that will give the most accurate information on online indishibition effect. Unless someone can name a place in person where people are willing to stand naked while someone masturbates in front of them, odds are that this article will tell us the most about online disinhibition than a lot one might find and reddit is a great example of convergence, being a discussion platform but also social media.
This article explains how Online disinhibition works and what is happening inside the brains of the “Online Trollers”. They state that the age of the internet may be to blame and say that as it ages we may see less effects of online Disinhibition. They also cover other topics such as the internet just being “labeled” in a certain way and that affecting the way the world sees the internet.
This article will help because it lays out more on how the internet has become more converged and more “aggressive” in a way that seems to be coming from Online Disinhibition. It also adds a different perspective on how the internet as a whole is reacting to the toxic disinhibition effects.
This article starts with a story of an online influencer getting harassed by an online troll and continuing to scare the troll into admitting his cowardice. The Article then goes into the history of Online disinhibition, among other stories and quotes from trolls and people who have been trolled.
The article is helpful because it is a viewpoint on how someone from the other end of toxic disinhibition is affects, versus how the disinhibition starts to begin with.
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