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The Ambivalent Internet

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Ambivalent Internet

By Ryan M. Milner, Whitney Phillips

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About the book

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...Show more

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9781509501274

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

2017

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The Ambivalent Internet

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