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This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things : Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (251 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262328999
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: This Is Why We Can't Have Nice ThingsDDC classification:
  • 302.23/1
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Subcultural Origins, 2003 - 2007 -- 1 Defining Terms: The Origins and Evolution of Subcultural Trolling -- 2 The Only Reason to Do Anything: Lulz, Play, and the Mask of Trolling -- 3 Toward a Method/ology -- II "The Golden Years," 2008 - 2011 -- 4 The House That Fox Built: Anonymous, Spectacle, and Cycles of Amplification -- 5 LOLing at Tragedy: Facebook Trolls, Memorial Pages, and the Business of Mass-Mediated Disaster Narratives -- 6 Race and the No-Spin Zone: The Thin Line between Trolling and Corporate Punditry -- 7 Dicks Everywhere: The Cultural Logics of Trolling -- III The Transitional Period, 2012 - 2015 -- 8 The Lulz Are Dead, Long Live the Lulz: From Subculture to Mainstream -- 9 Where Do We Go from Here? The Importance of Spinning Endlessly -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Why the troll problem is actually a culture problem: how online trolling fits comfortably within today's media landscape.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Subcultural Origins, 2003 - 2007 -- 1 Defining Terms: The Origins and Evolution of Subcultural Trolling -- 2 The Only Reason to Do Anything: Lulz, Play, and the Mask of Trolling -- 3 Toward a Method/ology -- II "The Golden Years," 2008 - 2011 -- 4 The House That Fox Built: Anonymous, Spectacle, and Cycles of Amplification -- 5 LOLing at Tragedy: Facebook Trolls, Memorial Pages, and the Business of Mass-Mediated Disaster Narratives -- 6 Race and the No-Spin Zone: The Thin Line between Trolling and Corporate Punditry -- 7 Dicks Everywhere: The Cultural Logics of Trolling -- III The Transitional Period, 2012 - 2015 -- 8 The Lulz Are Dead, Long Live the Lulz: From Subculture to Mainstream -- 9 Where Do We Go from Here? The Importance of Spinning Endlessly -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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

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