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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796910203321

Autore

Phillips Whitney <1983->

Titolo

This is why we can't have nice things : mapping the relationship between online trolling and mainstream culture / / Whitney Phillips

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-262-32900-X

0-262-52987-4

0-262-32899-2

Descrizione fisica

1 PDF (xi, 237 pages)

Collana

The information society series

Disciplina

302.23/1

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Defining terms : the origins and evolution of subcultural trolling -- The only reason to do anything : lulz, play, and the mask of trolling -- Toward a method/ology -- The house that fox built : anonymous, spectacle, and cycles of amplification -- LOLing at tragedy : Facebook trolls, memorial pages, and the business of mass-mediated disaster narratives -- Race and the no-spin zone : the thin line between trolling and corporate punditry -- Dicks everywhere : the cultural logics of trolling -- The lulz are de, long live the lulz : from subculture to mainstream -- Where do we go from here? The importance of spinning endlessly.

Sommario/riassunto

Why the troll problem is actually a culture problem: how online trolling fits comfortably within today's media landscape.