The Ambivalent Internet

Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5095-0126-7
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 441 g

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.

Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner 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.

The Ambivalent Internet is essential reading for students and scholars of digital media and related fields across the humanities, as well as anyone interested in mediated culture and expression.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Phillips, Whitney

Milner, Ryan M

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medienphilosophie, Medienethik, Medienrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Folkloric Expression

2. Identity Play

3. Constitutive Humor

4. Collective Storytelling

5. Public Debate

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ryan M. Milner is Assistant Professor of Communication at the College of Charleston.

Whitney Phillips is Assistant Professor of Literary Studies and Writing at Penfield College, Mercer University.