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What is the disinhibition effect? What are the implications for this in terms of our interactions in cyberspace?

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it is the lack of restraint one feels when communicating online in comparison to communicating in-person.

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Barry Wellman, Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, heads Netlab at the Centre for Urban and Community Studies in the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto.

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