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
Scraping the Social: “We are unknown to ourselves—and with good reason.” Friedrich Nietzsche—“Even the retards are starting to figure it out.” (comment)—“In data we trust.” Priceonomics—“The Internet fails to scale gracefully.” Chris Ellis—“I want to be surprised by my own bot”—“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” Leona... See more
Even small mistakes can bring heavy costs in a viral world where content can live forever and everyone can see it. Mistakes can be met with intense criticism by multiple individuals with whom one has no underlying bond. Apologies are often mocked, and any signal of re-acceptance can be mixed or vague. Instead of gaining an experience of social mast
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It’s not that certain platforms (ahem, Twitter.com) tend by some crazy fluke to be lousy with trolling, shit-posting, and abuse. They are set up to enable it. They live by engagement, and that means by exchange: not of information but of triggers. The troll plays the instrument the way it’s meant to be played. And the instrument’s creator is forced
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