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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Whitney, 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Online chat groups--Moral and ethical aspects.

Online chat groups.

Online identities--Moral and ethical aspects.

Online identities.

Online etiquette--Social aspects.

Online etiquette.

Internet--Social aspects.

Internet.

Internet--Moral and ethical aspects.

Internet users.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]

Contents:

I Subcultural Origins, 2003-2007 13

1 Defining Terms: The Origins and Evolution of Subcultural Trolling 15

2 The Only Reason to Do Anything: Lulz, Play, and the Mask of Trolling 27

3 Toward a Method/ology 37

II The "Golden Years," 2008-2011 49

4 The House That Fox Built: Anonymous, Spectacle, and Cycles of Amplification 51

5 LOLing at Tragedy: Facebook Trolls, Memorial Pages, and the Business of Mass-Mediated Disaster Narratives 71

6 Race and the No-Spin Zone: The Thin Line between Trolling and Corporate Punditry 95

7 Dicks Everywhere: The Cultural Logics of Trolling 115

III The Transitional Period, 2012-2015 135

8 The Lulz Are Dead, Long Live the Lulz: From Subculture to Mainstream 137

9 Where Do We Go from Here? The Importance of Spinning Endlessly 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262028943

0262028948

OCLC:

890310364