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Uncovering online commenting culture : trolls, fanboys and lurkers / Renee Barnes.

9783319702353 (electronic bk.)
3319702351 (electronic bk.)
9783319702346
3319702343

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

©2018

English

1 online resource (xv, 133 pages : illustration).

HM742 .B355 2018eb

302.23/1

In today's digital world our social interactions often take place in the form of written comments. We chat, disagree, worship, vent, confess, and even attack in written form in public digital spaces. Drawing on scholarly literature from media and cultural studies, psychology and sociology, this book charts this commenting territory and outlines why we behave in these ways online. In this timely book, Renee Barnes provides a participatory model for understanding commenting culture that is based on the premise that our behaviours online – including those that cause us most the concern – are not so much an internet problem as a social problem. By looking at a wide variety of online commenting habitats, from the comment threads following news stories, through to specialist forums and social media platforms, the volume provides a comprehensive understanding of the role of online commenting in society and provides suggestions for how we might mitigate bad behaviours.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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