This is why we can't have nice things : mapping the relationship between online trolling and mainstr...
This is why we can't have nice things : mapping the relationship between online trolling and mainstr...
This is why we can't have nice things : mapping the relationship between online trolling and mainstream culture / Whitney Phillips.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2015.
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G 2016/1634
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English
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xi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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still image
text
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unmediated
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volume
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...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2015.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2015.
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Internet trolls live to upset as many people as possible, using all the technical and psychological tools at their disposal. They gleefully whip the media into a frenzy over a fake teen drug crisis; they post offensive messages on Facebook memorial pages, traumatizing grief-stricken friends and family; they use unabashedly racist language and image...
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This is why we can't have nice things : mapping the relationship between online trolling and mainstream culture / Whitney Phillips.
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Mapping the relationship between online trolling and mainstream culture.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2015.
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G 2016/1634
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74VKVpQywx6X
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ISBN
9780262028943 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
302.231
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991023988305702626
