TY - JOUR AU - Carey, Robert F. AU - Burkell, Jacquelyn PY - 2007/08/06 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Revisiting the Four Horsemen of the Infopocalypse: Representations of anonymity and the Internet in Canadian newspapers JF - First Monday JA - FM VL - 12 IS - 8 SE - DO - 10.5210/fm.v12i8.1999 UR - https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1999 SP - AB - The concept of anonymity is central to much discussion about the Internet. In this paper, we wish to identify the term's work in the context of more expansive claims about the function, value and consequences of networked information technology in society. We argue that themes and topics in a sample of Canadian print news stories are exemplary of a discourse about the Internet in which anonymity is portrayed as an element that facilitates positive or negative social outcomes of the technology. ER -