Textual Cacophony: Online Video and Anonymity in Japan

by Daniel Johnson

Book Overview

Textual Cacophony explores the behaviors and routines of communication within anonymous internet culture in Japan. Focusing on the video sharing website Niconico, social media aggregation sites, and the notorious 2channel message board, Daniel Johnson uncovers these sites' complex cultures of writing that obscure meaning through playful and opaque forms of deviant script and overwhelming waves of text. Those practices conflate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501772260
• ISBN13: 9781501772269
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher