This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture
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This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture
context collapse creates a “lowest-common-denominator philosophy of sharing [that] limits users to topics that are safe for all possible readers.”4
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