The Anonymity Dilemma 2: Information Warfare

Curated by Emily Hsiang Yun Huang

3 November 2023

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Let’s explore the complexity of online anonymity. If we want a safe online space for open critical discussions and political activism, we need the right to be anonymous. But anonymity is a double-edged sword: digital platforms that enable anonymous freedom of expression can also facilitate harassment, exploitation and the spread of disinformation. In two panel discussions The Anonymity Dilemma will reassess the value of online anonymity.

In this discussion we use the lens of cross-platform analysis to offer insights into transnational information warfare. Panellist Puma Shen is a researcher specialising in models of disinformation patterns, with a focus on Southeast Asia and Chinese information operations in Taiwan and the US. Marc Tuters will offer insights on post-truth narrative, conspiracism, and networked participation in Europe and the US. The discussion will tackle the roles of cyber armies, internet trolls and anonymity in information warfare, as well as the ethical dilemmas surrounding platform regulations that reflect the conflict between freedom of speech and the need to address disinformation.

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Emily Hsiang-Yun Huang

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Emily Hsiang-Yun Huang is a researcher and visual artist from Taiwan. She holds a BA in Philosophy from National Taiwan University (TW) and an MA in Media Studies from Leiden University (NL). Her research interests focus on the relationship between body and technology from the perspective of postcolonialism and digital materialism. Projects she has curated include Taipei Digital Art Festival-Fake It Real (2022), Embodied Interface (2020) and Uchronia (2020). As an artist, she often makes performance films derived from her poetry on the vulnerability of human existence, with a focus on the female body, in-between identity and the circularity of time. Her works have been exhibited at the Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art and the Cinedance Festival at the Eye Museum in Amsterdam, among others.

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