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

by Whitney Phillips

Book Overview

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