This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture

By Whitney Phillips. 2015

177 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. Amy S. Bruckman
2. Eric Gilbert
3. Tim Highfield
4. Tama Leaver
5. Shagun Jhaver
6. Sucheta Ghoshal

In Information Systems

1. Amy S. Bruckman
2. Eric Gilbert
3. Tim Highfield
4. Tama Leaver
5. Shagun Jhaver
6. Sucheta Ghoshal
7. Adair Morse
8. Gregory Stoddard

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Amy S. Bruckman
2. Eric Gilbert
3. Tim Highfield
4. Tama Leaver
5. Shagun Jhaver
6. Sucheta Ghoshal

Citations in the corpus

• Online Harassment and Content Moderation (2018, methodology): “the mask of trolling safeguards trolls’ personal attachments, thereby allowing the troll to focus solely on the extraction of lulz(10)” [37].”
• Critical Race Theory for HCI (2020, background): “The well-documented phenomenon of online trolling is something that racial minorities are intimately familiar with every time they dare to speak truth to power online [24, 98].”
• Instagrammatics and digital methods: studying visual social media, from selfies and GIFs to memes and emoji (2016, background): “1 Memes are not restricted to one platform or template, for instance, and indeed their historical trajectory, contested popularity, and cultural implications as meme creation became accessible and not 4chan-only has been discussed in depth (Miltner, 2014; Shifman, 2014a, 2014b; Phillips, 2015).”