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Participatory Culture, Community, and Play: Learning from Reddit - Couverture souple

Massanari, Adrienne L.

 
9781433126772: Participatory Culture, Community, and Play: Learning from Reddit
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 143312677X ISBN 13 : 9781433126772
Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2015

Synopsis

What does online community look like in the age of social networking ? How do participatory culture platforms reflect both their designers' intentions and the desires of their users ? In this incisive and timely work, Adrienne L. Massanari discusses how culture is created and challenged on Reddit.com, the self-proclaimed "front page of the internet". Reddit enables the sharing of original and reposted content from around the web, and provides a platform for like-minded individuals to commune around topics of interest – everything from the joys of drinking beer in a shower (/r/showerbeer) to celebrating the pleasures of tidy penmanship (/r/penmanshipporn). Massanari's ethnographic work provides a detailed examination of the contradictions that shape Reddit's culture and how they reflect its role as an epicenter of geek culture. The book explores the ways in which community on Reddit is formed and solidified through play and humor, and the complex ways in which Redditors come together, which demonstrate a deep capacity for altruism and charitable giving, but can easily lapse into mob action. It also explores the community's troubling gender and racial politics and how some Redditors are carving out their own space on the site to fight back.

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À propos de l'auteur

Adrienne L. Massanari (PhD, University of Washington) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is co-editor of Digital Ethics (Peter Lang, 2012) and Critical Cyberculture Studies (2006).

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Éditeur
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
143312677X
ISBN 13 
9781433126772
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
223
Coordonnées du fabricant
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