The Ambivalent Internet: Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online

by Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner

Book Overview

This book explores the weird and mean and in-between that characterize everyday expression online, from absurdist photoshops to antagonistic Twitter hashtags to deceptive identity play.

Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner focus especially on the ambivalence of this expression: the fact that it is too unwieldy, too variable across cases, to be essentialized as old or new, vernacular or institutional, generative or destructive. Online expression...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509501266
• ISBN13: 9781509501267
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"