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the fact that online trolling is par for the mainstream cultural course.

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

trolls reveal the thin and at times nonexistent line between trolling and sensationalist corporate media.

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

that trolls’ behaviors provide an implicit, and sometimes outright explicit, critique of existing media and cultural systems—

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

Social media’s combination of global reach,

performance metrics, platform design, content

format, and algorithmic interference have changed

how creators make for others, and how others

perceive and interact with creators' work.

The results are an eternal presence, persistent

feedback, an unrealistic expectation of virality,

harmful social comparison, crea

Matt Klein • Page Not Found

trolls’ simultaneously symbiotic and exploitative relationship to mainstream culture,

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

Like so many technologies that came before, it seems to be here to stay; the question is not how to escape it but how to understand ourselves in its inescapable wake.

In his new book, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is,” Justin E. H. Smith, a professor of philosophy at the Université Paris Cité, argues that “the present situation is intolerab... See more

Kyle Chayka • How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines

It was considered part and parcel of the Internet, and more threatening situations were just anomalies to be aware of in an environment that generally accepted and encouraged this type of behavior. In early texts about the Internet, people would speak of their digital alter egos openly, “Online, I’m a 6’4” German man, and in real life, I’m….”Often ... See more

Katherine Dee • Identity play.

But this internecine internet feud is eclipsed, in Lorenz’s reporting, by a shadow thesis of which she seems largely unaware: that the engine for this corporate revolution—this rerouting of business models and marketing campaigns from “connection” to “content creation”—has consistently been white women. White women producers (as mommy bloggers, My... See more

Anna Shechtman • Life in the Algorithm

trolling is, or at least can be, an extremely effective rhetorical strategy.