I'm Emily van der Nagel, social media researcher

Hi Imzy! I'm Emily van der Nagel, a social media researcher from Melbourne, Australia. I'm 27, I like TV, tea, knitting, yoga, the theatre, my city, feminism, and I'm on social media all day long (especially Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram), for work and play.

I've been studying social media pseudonymity for over four years as I write my PhD thesis about it. I've focused on pseudonymity history, the 2011 nymwars, pseudonymous identities on Reddit Gonewild, and doxing.

I'm really excited that on Imzy, you can choose who you want to be on each post. I think it's an important step towards acknowledging that we have context-dependent identities that shift as we communicate with different audiences.

I wrote about anonymous social media last year for Gizmodo: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/10/anonymity-on-social-media-is-under-threat/.

I tweet at https://twitter.com/emvdn, and you can see a lot of my writing at https://swinburne.academia.edu/EmilyvanderNagel.