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

by Whitney Phillips

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Why the internet 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 over a fake teen drug crisis; they post offensive messages on Facebook memorial pages, traumatizing grief-stricken friends and family; they...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0262529874

ISBN13:9780262529877

Release Date:September 2016

Publisher:MIT Press

Length:250 Pages

Weight:0.78 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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