Gabriella Coleman, “Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls: The Politics of Transgression and Spectacle“, in Michael Mandiberg (ed.). The Social Media Reader, New York, New York University Press, 2012. Also read the HACKER entry in The Johns Hopkins Encyclopedia of Digital Textuality, 2014 by E. Gabriella Coleman And last but not least : Gabriela Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, … Continued
Jonathan Bishop, “Representations of ‘trolls’ in mass media communication: A review of media-texts and moral panics relating to ‘internet trolling’“, International Journal of Web Based Communities, 2014, 10 (1), pp. 7‑24. Abstract: There is a general trend amongst mass media organisations around the world towards concentration of the visual, written and audio packaging and of newspapers, … Continued
Karla Mantilla, Gendertrolling: how misogyny went viral, Praeger, 2015. Table of content : Introduction Characteristics of gendertrolling Responses to gendertrolling campaigns Fighting back Gendertrolling : it’s not about the Internet The power of naming Cultural defense mechanisms as backlash Gendertrolling : cultural defense mechanisms at work Recommendations for change
Christopher Leslie, “Flame Wars on Worldnet: Early Constructions of the International User”, IFIP International Conference on the History of Computing (HC), May 2016, Brooklyn, NY, United States, pp.122-140, 10.1007/978-3-319-49463-0_9 . hal-01620137 Abstract: Some of the earliest users of the Internet described their activities as predicting a widespread communication medium that would cross national boundaries even … Continued
Michael Stevenson and Anne Helmond, “Legacy systems: internet histories of the abandoned, discontinued and forgotten”, Internet Histories, 4:1, 1-5, DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2020.1725854 Read more : – Introduction to the special issue in open access – Content of this special issue
Niels Brügger and Ralph Schroeder, Web as History, London, UCL Press, 2017. This volume argues that now is the time to question what we have learnt from the Web so far. The 12 chapters explore this topic from a number of interdisciplinary angles – through histories of national web spaces and case studies of different … Continued