A quick look at digital sociology and new media studies reveals the anonymous identity practices in the 1990s and the potential of these new media environments have to democratize social and political life in the public sphere in the early 2000s to have become more studied. The literature has examined using new media environments for political and social activism since the 2010s and begun turning toward the dimensions of the digital divide and digital inequalities in the 2020s, along with the phenomena of digital surveillance and data colonialism.