--- title: "1 Internet Knows Quotes By Nick Yee" description: "1 Internet Knows quotes by Nick Yee. Plus more from Nick Yee and more Internet Knows sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c87/nick-yee-26952_freedom_peter-steiner-s-1993-cartoon-in-the-new_2956506.jpg" --- > [“Peter Steiner’s 1993 cartoon in the New Yorker captured the promise of freedom and anonymity that the Internet once offered: “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” But our era of big data—especially as more data are captured and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/peter-steiner-s-1993-cartoon-in-the-new-yorker-captured-the-promise/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c87/nick-yee-26952_freedom_peter-steiner-s-1993-cartoon-in-the-new_2956506.jpg) ## More by Nick Yee > [“It’s easier to put warning labels on video games than to address all the very real social, cultural, and psychological factors that lead to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/it-s-easier-to-put-warning-labels-on-video-games-than-to-address-all/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“Where we did find a statistical difference was in character gender. Female characters had a much higher healing ratio compared with male characters. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/where-we-did-find-a-statistical-difference-was-in-character-gender/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force is trying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/the-being-we-call-god-is-merely-a-pawn-working-for-a-powerful-and/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“As male characters level up and become more powerful, their bodies become better protected and covered. In contrast, as female characters level up and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/as-male-characters-level-up-and-become-more-powerful-their-bodies/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“Falling in love in an online game is more similar to an office romance than finding someone in an online dating site. The love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/falling-in-love-in-an-online-game-is-more-similar-to-an-office/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“gender-bending among men is often an artifact of the sexualized female avatars, rather than an explicit attempt to explore gender roles.17”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/gender-bending-among-men-is-often-an-artifact-of-the-sexualized/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“Taken to its extreme, the premise of gamification is that any task, no matter how tedious, can be made engaging and motivating.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/taken-to-its-extreme-the-premise-of-gamification-is-that-any-task-no/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [ “As sociologist T. L. Taylor has argued, these attempts to create games specifically for women are “reifying imagined difference\[s\]” between male and female gamers.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/as-sociologist-t-l-taylor-has-argued-these-attempts-to-create-games/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“Even if virtual worlds were tabula rasa, we are encumbered with a great deal of cognitive baggage. Our brains are hardwired with many mental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/even-if-virtual-worlds-were-tabula-rasa-we-are-encumbered-with-a/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“Edward Castronova has argued that virtual worlds are “the modern equivalent to supercolliders for social scientists. . . . Virtual worlds allow for societal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/edward-castronova-has-argued-that-virtual-worlds-are-the-modern/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“Political theorist Langdon Winner argues that human artifacts embody politics—the things we build can implicitly regulate who does and does not belong.20 The fantasy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/political-theorist-langdon-winner-argues-that-human-artifacts-embody/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“participants exposed to scantily clad female avatars were more likely to believe that women who get raped deserve it because of their perceived promiscuity.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/participants-exposed-to-scantily-clad-female-avatars-were-more-likely/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“When the first professional computer programmers were all women during World War II, and only 12 percent of computer science degrees were awarded to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/when-the-first-professional-computer-programmers-were-all-women/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“Studies have consistently shown that women have less free time and that their free time is more likely to be infringed on by gendered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/studies-have-consistently-shown-that-women-have-less-free-time-and/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) > [“Sexism isn’t a conspiracy that men carry out against women; it’s how we as a society treat men and women differently and shape how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/sexism-isn-t-a-conspiracy-that-men-carry-out-against-women-it-s-how/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/internet-knows/nick-yee/#itemlist", "name": "1 Internet Knows Quotes By Nick Yee", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Peter Steiner’s 1993 cartoon in the New Yorker captured the promise of freedom and anonymity that the Internet once offered: “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” But our era of big data—especially as more data are captured and at finer-grain resolutions—flips this premise around. 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