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-

Series:

The information society series

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.

Physical Description:

1 PDF (xi, 237 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2015.

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-32900-X

0-262-52987-4

0-262-32899-2

OCLC:

904799956

Publisher Number:

40024702643