Publication Date
5-2022
Abstract
In this paper, I discuss the impact of the app Yik Yak on college campuses, after it returned as a platform in 2021 post 2017 removal. The key aspects of the app include its location-based nature, anonymity, and user moderation system. I discuss advantages and disadvantages of the culture that it fosters, as well as greater social, political, and philosophical implications of Yik Yak as a hybrid space, or a space that permits communication both online and in the real world.
Recommended Citation
Neher, Lily
(2022)
"The Resurrection of Yik Yak,"
Comm-entary: Vol. 18:
Iss.
1, Article 16.
Available at:
https://scholars.unh.edu/comm-entary/vol18/iss1/16