Note that the person on your last link, despite professing to be terrified of his students, seems to have been happy enough to publish that article with his real name on it.
Vox: Edward Schlosser is a college professor, writing under a pseudonym.
Ha. I actually checked for that, but obviously not carefully enough. My apologies.
[EDITED to add:] OK, so I went back and searched the page, and it doesn’t say that anywhere. (Though buried in the middle of the article is a statement along the lines of “all controversial things I write, like this article, are anonymous or pseudonymous”, so I still should have known.) Perhaps it’s because I’m reading on a mobile device?
You get that line if you click on the author’s name.
The article starts by saying: I'm a professor at a midsize state school.
If you read between the lines that’s a decision against revealing the name of the school and thus a decision to protect anonymity.
In general the media likes to use pseudonyms when it can’t use the real name, so the fact that you have a name on the top is no good evidence that the article isn’t written anonymously or under a pseudonym.
That’s why I looked for a statement at the start or end that the name was pseudo. I think not finding such a thing genuinely was evidence of non-pseudonymity, though clearly not enough evidence was it turned out. I didn’t think of clicking on the name because I’m an idiot.
Vox:
Edward Schlosser is a college professor, writing under a pseudonym.Ha. I actually checked for that, but obviously not carefully enough. My apologies.
[EDITED to add:] OK, so I went back and searched the page, and it doesn’t say that anywhere. (Though buried in the middle of the article is a statement along the lines of “all controversial things I write, like this article, are anonymous or pseudonymous”, so I still should have known.) Perhaps it’s because I’m reading on a mobile device?
You get that line if you click on the author’s name.
The article starts by saying:
I'm a professor at a midsize state school.If you read between the lines that’s a decision against revealing the name of the school and thus a decision to protect anonymity.In general the media likes to use pseudonyms when it can’t use the real name, so the fact that you have a name on the top is no good evidence that the article isn’t written anonymously or under a pseudonym.
That’s why I looked for a statement at the start or end that the name was pseudo. I think not finding such a thing genuinely was evidence of non-pseudonymity, though clearly not enough evidence was it turned out. I didn’t think of clicking on the name because I’m an idiot.