online culture
Performative power versus persuasive dialogue on social media Paid Members Public
Ezra Klein's latest podcast delves deep into the social complexities of the behaviours lumped under the banner of "cancel culture"
Engaged Reading Digest: newsroom culture, Twitter reality and better newsletters Paid Members Public
If you read the first couple of links, you'll understand why I call this series of posts what I do.
Fighting trolling with academic rigour Paid Members Public
Trolling – hostile, provocative anti-social behaviour – is one of the biggest challenges to any large-scale online community – and that includes comment sections on mainstream publications. The problem is far, far bigger in the online gaming world, though. And one of the biggest games in the eSports sector – League of Legends [http:
The nature of the Reddit beast Paid Members Public
What actually is Reddit?, asks Samantha Allen, writing for The Daily Beast: Reddit is not so much the generic front page of the Internet as it is its spacious, tricked-out man cave: a lot of people can fit inside, but only some people feel comfortable hanging out there. And she
Understanding chan culture, the birthplace of GamerGate Paid Members Public
Boing Boing has published a fascinating exploration of chan culture [http://boingboing.net/2014/12/31/how-imageboard-culture-shaped.html] – the society of “anons” that congregate around 4chan and its spinoffs – and the problems created when it clashes with, say, Twitter culture, as it did at the height of GamerGate: > This hostility
