The ambivalent Internet : mischief, oddity, and antagonism online / Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner.

Author
Phillips, Whitney, 1983- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2017.
Description
viii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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    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. The authors 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 is, instead, all of the above. This ambivalence, the authors argue, hinges on available digital tools. That said, there is nothing unexpected or surprising about even the strangest online behavior. Ours is a brave new world, and there is nothing new under the sun - a point necessary to understanding not just that online spaces are rife with oddity, mischief, and antagonism, but why these behaviors matter. -- Page 4 of cover.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-230) and index.
    Contents
    • Folkloric expression
    • Identity play
    • Constitutive humor
    • Collective storytelling
    • Public debate.
    Other title(s)
    Mischief, oddity, and antagonism online
    ISBN
    • 9781509501267 ((hardback))
    • 1509501266 ((hardback))
    • 9781509501274 ((pbk.))
    • 1509501274 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2016047503
    OCLC
    963914460
    Other standard number
    • 40027275996
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