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

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
Work
Publication
Extent
xi, 237 pages
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
Isbn
9780262028943
Instance
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
Creator
Subject
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-
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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
  • 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
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-223) and index
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volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
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
Label
This is why we can't have nice things : mapping the relationship between online trolling and mainstream culture, Whitney Phillips
Publication
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
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

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