Whitney Phillips: 2 books
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Why the troll problem is actually a culture problem: how online trolling fits comfortably within today's media landscape.
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...
The Ambivalent Internet
Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
This book explores the weird and mean and in-between that characterize everyday expression online, from absurdist photoshops to antagonistic Twitter hashtags to deceptive identity play.
Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner focus especially on the ambivalence of this expression: the fact that...