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This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Hardcover • 2015 • English

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

By Whitney Phillips

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About the book

Internet trolls live to upset as many people as possible, using all the technical and psychological tools at their disposal. They gleefully whip the media into a frenzy over a fake teen drug crisis; they post offensive messages on Facebook memorial pages, traumatizing grief-stricken friends and family; they use unabashedly racist language and images. They take pleasure in ruining a complete stranger's day and find amusement in their victim's anguish. In short, trolling is the obstacle to a kinde...Show more

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ISBN

9780262028943

Publisher

MIT Press

Published year

2015

Language

English

Original title

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Format

Hardcover

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