The Causality Test of Network Technical Anonymity and Perceptive Anonymity

In order to discuss different types of network anonymity and the correlations among them, this paper separates network anonymity into two variables on the basis of subject object dichotomy. One is network technical anonymity, referring to the amount of information concealed that lead to difficulties in identifying the subject; the other is perceptive anonymity, which means how anonymous one perceive him/herself has been. Then the author explores how to measure these variables and set up a test model to see if there is any causal relation between them. The data was collected from Sina Weibo, and it is intended for empirical test. This thesis proved that there is an obvious causal relation between the two types of anonymity.