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

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

Why the troll problem is actually a culture problem: how online trolling fits comfortably within today's media...
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This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture by Phillips, Whitney

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

CHF 26.41

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

CHF 26.41
Author: Whitney Phillips
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 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.



Author: Whitney Phillips
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 09/02/2016
Pages: 250
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780262529877
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Whitney Phillips is Assistant Professor of Communication, Culture, and Digital Technologies at Syracuse University

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