When people choose infocide they are doing two things: they are leaving and they are taking their stuff (information) with them when they go. (Hence, in English we have an idiom for those that leave in a huff as “taking their ball and going home.”) Even without the retraction of ...
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Even when one puts aside mediated or facilitated death, terms related to infocide might speak of (a) attention seeking, (b) getting oneself banned (intentionally or not), and (c) and the purposeful retraction of one’s presence and contributions from the Internet.
Attention seeking behavior is central to the Urban Dictionary ...
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I have recently begun a small research project about infocide: the purposeful retraction of one’s presence and contributions from the Internet. However, naturally, one must distinguish this practice from the purposeful ending of one’s life. Both retraction and suicide have varied, and sometimes overlapping, neologisms. Internet suicide is ...
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