This is why we can't have nice things : mapping the relationship between online trolling and mainstream culture / Whitney Phillips
- Author
- Phillips, Whitney, 1983-
- Published
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 237 pages) : illustrations
Access Online
- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- I. Subcultural origins, 2003-2007 : 1. Defining terms: the origins and evolution of subcultural trolling ; 2. The only reason to do anything: lulz, play, and the mask of trolling ; 3. Toward a method/ology -- II. The "golden years," 2008-2011 : 4. The house that Fox built: anonymous, spectacle, and cycles of amplification ; 5. LOLing at tragedy: Facebook trolls, memorial pages, and the business of mass-mediated disaster narratives ; 6. Race and the no-spin zone: the thin line between trolling and corporate punditry ; 7. Dicks everywhere: the cultural logics of trolling -- III. The transitional period, 2012-2015 : 8. The lulz are dead, long live the lulz: from subculture to mainstream ; 9. Where do we go from here? The importance of spinning endlessly.
- Summary
- Why the troll problem is actually a culture problem: how online trolling fits comfortably within today's media landscape.
- Subject(s)
- Online chat groups—Moral and ethical aspects
- Online identities—Moral and ethical aspects
- Online etiquette—Social aspects
- Internet—Social aspects
- Internet—Moral and ethical aspects
- Internet users
- Clavardage—Aspect moral
- Identité numérique—Aspect moral
- Nétiquette—Aspect social
- Internet—Aspect social
- Internet—Aspect moral
- Internautes
- PSYCHOLOGY—Social Psychology
- COMPUTERS—Social Aspects—General
- Online-Community
- Internet
- Chatten
- Netiquette
- Kultur
- Chatt—etik och moral
- Sociala nätverk online—etik och moral
- Internet—sociala aspekter
- Internetanvändare
- Other Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780262328999 (electronic bk.)
0262328992 (electronic bk.)
9780262328982 (electronic bk.)
0262328984 (electronic bk.)
1336200758 (electronic bk.)
9781336200753 (electronic bk.)
9780262329002 (electronic bk.)
026232900X (electronic bk.)
0262529874
9780262529877
9780262028943
0262028948
9780262329002
026232900X - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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