[Gendergap] Interesting new book on trolling

[Jake Orlowitz]

This looks worth reading.

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between
Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture (Information Society Series)
Hardcover – February 27, 2015by Whitney Phillips

  (Author)
http://smile.amazon.com/This-Cant-Have-Nice-Things/dp/0262028948?sa-no-redirect=1

"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 just have a trolling
problem, Phillips argues; we have a culture problem. *This Is Why We Can't
Have Nice Things *isn't only about trolls; it's about a culture in which
trolls thrive."



Jake (Ocaasi)
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Re: [Gendergap] Interesting new book on trolling

[Luis Villa]

If you're into academic treatments of moderation, this might also be
interesting:

http://yjolt.org/sites/default/files/Grimmelmann_The-Virtues-of-Moderation.pdf

[I haven't read it yet, but the author is consistently both extremely
readable (by legal standards) and very good on technical issues. And there
is a section on Wikimedia in there.]

Luis

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Jake Orlowitz  wrote:

> This looks worth reading.
>
> This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between
> Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture (Information Society Series)
> Hardcover – February 27, 2015by Whitney Phillips
> 
>   (Author)
>
> http://smile.amazon.com/This-Cant-Have-Nice-Things/dp/0262028948?sa-no-redirect=1
>
> "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 just have a trolling
> problem, Phillips argues; we have a culture problem. *This Is Why We
> Can't Have Nice Things *isn't only about trolls; it's about a culture in
> which trolls thrive."
>
>
>
> Jake (Ocaasi)
>
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Re: [Gendergap] Interesting new book on trolling

[JJ Marr]

Is that a referral link?
On Apr 1, 2015 6:20 PM, "Jake Orlowitz"  wrote:

> This looks worth reading.
>
> This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between
> Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture (Information Society Series)
> Hardcover - February 27, 2015by Whitney Phillips
> 
>   (Author)
>
> http://smile.amazon.com/This-Cant-Have-Nice-Things/dp/0262028948?sa-no-redirect=1
>
> "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 just have a trolling
> problem, Phillips argues; we have a culture problem. *This Is Why We
> Can't Have Nice Things *isn't only about trolls; it's about a culture in
> which trolls thrive."
>
>
>
> Jake (Ocaasi)
>
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Re: [Gendergap] Interesting new book on trolling

[Janine Starykowicz]

Amazon Smile is their charity program, a portion of your purchase will go to whichever charity you have selected. Not sure 
what happens if you don't have one selected.


A better question might be why does a book about an internet topic not have an 
ebook version?

Janine

JJ Marr wrote:

Is that a referral link?

On Apr 1, 2015 6:20 PM, "Jake Orlowitz" mailto:jorlow...@gmail.com>> wrote:

This looks worth reading.


  This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between 
Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture
  (Information Society Series)


  Hardcover – February 27, 2015


  byWhitney Phillips 

 // (Author)



  
http://smile.amazon.com/This-Cant-Have-Nice-Things/dp/0262028948?sa-no-redirect=1



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Re: [Gendergap] Interesting new book on trolling

[Peter Southwood]

Worth reading.

Cheers,

Peter

 

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Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Interesting new book on trolling

 

If you're into academic treatments of moderation, this might also be 
interesting:

 

http://yjolt.org/sites/default/files/Grimmelmann_The-Virtues-of-Moderation.pdf

 

[I haven't read it yet, but the author is consistently both extremely readable 
(by legal standards) and very good on technical issues. And there is a section 
on Wikimedia in there.]

 

Luis

 

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Jake Orlowitz  wrote:

This looks worth reading.

 


This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online 
Trolling and Mainstream Culture (Information Society Series) 


Hardcover – February 27, 2015


by  
<http://smile.amazon.com/Whitney-Phillips/e/B00TR4REOK/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1>
 Whitney Phillips  (Author)


 


http://smile.amazon.com/This-Cant-Have-Nice-Things/dp/0262028948?sa-no-redirect=1


 

"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 just have a trolling problem, Phillips argues; we have a culture problem. 
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things isn't only about trolls; it's about a 
culture in which trolls thrive."

 

 

Jake (Ocaasi)


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