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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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- Summary
- "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 images. They take pleasure in ruining a complete stranger's day and find amusement in their victim's anguish. In short, trolling is the obstacle to a kinder, gentler Internet. To quote a famous Internet meme, trolling is why we can't have nice things online. Or at least that's what we have been led to believe. In this provocative book, Whitney Phillips argues that trolling, widely condemned as obscene and deviant, actually fits comfortably within the contemporary media landscape. Trolling may be obscene, but, Phillips argues, it isn't all that deviant. Trolls' actions are born of and fueled by culturally sanctioned impulses - which are just as damaging as the trolls' most disruptive behaviors. Phillips describes, for example, the relationship between trolling and sensationalist corporate media - pointing out that for trolls, exploitation is a leisure activity; for media, it's a business strategy. She shows how trolls, 'the grimacing poster children for a socially networked world, ' align with social media. And she documents how trolls, in addition to parroting media tropes, also offer a grotesque pantomime of dominant cultural tropes, including gendered notions of dominance and success and an ideology of entitlement. We don't have just a trolling problem. This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things isn't only about trolls; it's about a culture in which trolls thrive."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 237 pages
- Contents
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- I. Subcultural origins, 2003-2007 : 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
- II. The "golden years," 2008-2011 : 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
- III. The transitional period, 2012-2015 : The lulz are dead, long live the lulz: from subculture to mainstream
- Where do we go from here? The importance of spinning endlessly
- Isbn
- 9780262028943
- Label
- This is why we can't have nice things : mapping the relationship between online trolling and mainstream culture
- Title
- This is why we can't have nice things
- Title remainder
- mapping the relationship between online trolling and mainstream culture
- Statement of responsibility
- Whitney Phillips
- Subject
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- Chatten
- Internet
- Internet -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Internet -- Social aspects
- Internet -- sociala aspekter
- Internet users
- Internetanvändare
- Chatt -- etik och moral
- Netiquette
- Online chat groups -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Online etiquette
- Online identities -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Online trolling -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Online-Community
- Sociala nätverk online -- etik och moral
- Kultur
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 images. They take pleasure in ruining a complete stranger's day and find amusement in their victim's anguish. In short, trolling is the obstacle to a kinder, gentler Internet. To quote a famous Internet meme, trolling is why we can't have nice things online. Or at least that's what we have been led to believe. In this provocative book, Whitney Phillips argues that trolling, widely condemned as obscene and deviant, actually fits comfortably within the contemporary media landscape. Trolling may be obscene, but, Phillips argues, it isn't all that deviant. Trolls' actions are born of and fueled by culturally sanctioned impulses - which are just as damaging as the trolls' most disruptive behaviors. Phillips describes, for example, the relationship between trolling and sensationalist corporate media - pointing out that for trolls, exploitation is a leisure activity; for media, it's a business strategy. She shows how trolls, 'the grimacing poster children for a socially networked world, ' align with social media. And she documents how trolls, in addition to parroting media tropes, also offer a grotesque pantomime of dominant cultural tropes, including gendered notions of dominance and success and an ideology of entitlement. We don't have just a trolling problem. This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things isn't only about trolls; it's about a culture in which trolls thrive."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1983-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Phillips, Whitney
- Dewey number
- 302.23/1
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HM1169
- LC item number
- .P45 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- The information society series
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Online trolling
- Online chat groups
- Online identities
- Online etiquette
- Internet
- Internet
- Internet users
- Online-Community
- Internet
- Chatten
- Netiquette
- Kultur
- Chatt
- Sociala nätverk online
- Internet
- Internetanvändare
- Label
- This is why we can't have nice things : mapping the relationship between online trolling and mainstream culture, Whitney Phillips
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-223) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- I. Subcultural origins, 2003-2007 : 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 -- II. The "golden years," 2008-2011 : 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 -- III. The transitional period, 2012-2015 : The lulz are dead, long live the lulz: from subculture to mainstream -- Where do we go from here? The importance of spinning endlessly
- Control code
- ocn890310364
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 237 pages
- Isbn
- 9780262028943
- Lccn
- 2014034232
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other control number
- 40024702643
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780262028943
- (OCoLC)890310364
- Label
- This is why we can't have nice things : mapping the relationship between online trolling and mainstream culture, Whitney Phillips
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-223) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- I. Subcultural origins, 2003-2007 : 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 -- II. The "golden years," 2008-2011 : 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 -- III. The transitional period, 2012-2015 : The lulz are dead, long live the lulz: from subculture to mainstream -- Where do we go from here? The importance of spinning endlessly
- Control code
- ocn890310364
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 237 pages
- Isbn
- 9780262028943
- Lccn
- 2014034232
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40024702643
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780262028943
- (OCoLC)890310364
Subject
- Chatten
- Internet
- Internet -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Internet -- Social aspects
- Internet -- sociala aspekter
- Internet users
- Internetanvändare
- Chatt -- etik och moral
- Netiquette
- Online chat groups -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Online etiquette
- Online identities -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Online trolling -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Online-Community
- Sociala nätverk online -- etik och moral
- Kultur
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