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recent bookmarks from jmThe Existential Crisis Plaguing Online Extremism Researchers2019-06-05T10:01:42+00:00
https://www.wired.com/story/existential-crisis-plaguing-online-extremism-researchers/?fbclid=IwAR21A3r5QnFl1PZg2jNmidfV6x2BvkI9Nw3MmBS-dfY2ABX8gpgj4GTPnmo
jmMany researchers in the field cut their teeth as techno-optimists, studying the positive aspects of the internet—like bringing people together to enhance creativity or further democratic protest, á la the Arab Spring—says Marwick. But it didn’t last.
The past decade has been an exercise in dystopian comeuppance to the utopian discourse of the '90s and ‘00s. Consider Gamergate, the Internet Research Agency, fake news, the internet-fueled rise of the so-called alt-right, Pizzagate, QAnon, Elsagate and the ongoing horrors of kids YouTube, Facebook’s role in fanning the flames of genocide, Cambridge Analytica, and so much more.
“In many ways, I think it [the malaise] is a bit about us being let down by something that many of us really truly believed in,” says Marwick. Even those who were more realistic about tech—and foresaw its misuse—are stunned by the extent of the problem, she says. “You have to come to terms with the fact that not only were you wrong, but even the bad consequences that many of us did foretell were nowhere near as bad as the actual consequences that either happened or are going to happen.”
[.....] “It's not that one of our systems is broken; it's not even that all of our systems are broken,” says Phillips. “It's that all of our systems are working ... toward the spread of polluted information and the undermining of democratic participation.”
(via Paul Moloney)]]>future grim dystopia tech optimism web internet gamergate wired via:oceanclubhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d6f23e41a4fd/'The Internet of Garbage' by Sarah Jeong2018-09-05T09:19:01+00:00
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/28/17777330/internet-of-garbage-book-sarah-jeong-online-harassment
jmdystopia fake-news internet spam harrassment abuse twitter gamergate politics books free to-readhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1fa9b11841c6/What Gamergate should have taught us about the 'alt-right'2017-12-19T17:39:51+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/01/gamergate-alt-right-hate-trump
jm
Prominent critics of the Trump administration need to learn from Gamergate. They need to be prepared for abuse, for falsified concerns, invented grassroots campaigns designed specifically to break, belittle, or disgrace. Words and concepts will be twisted, repackaged and shared across forums, stripping them of meaning. Gamergate painted critics as censors, the far-right movement claims critics are the real racists.
Perhaps the true lesson of Gamergate was that the media is culturally unequipped to deal with the forces actively driving these online movements. The situation was horrifying enough two years ago, it is many times more dangerous now.
]]>politics fascism gamergate history alt-right milo fake-news propaganda nazis racism misogynyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c70eeb8f71e4/Yonatan Zunger's twitter thread on Twitter's problem with policy issues2017-10-25T17:06:41+00:00
https://tttthreads.com/thread/914605545490857984
jmvia:peterbourgon harrassment twitter gamergate threads youtube google-plus policy abuse bullying free-speech engagementhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8e5647e2415b/Fans of chess were outraged when the queen piece was added2017-04-12T08:45:43+00:00
https://twitter.com/Lawrence_Miles/status/851630819131224065
jmgamergate funny 16th-century history chess gaming games queenhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7051c120c6a3/Hacking the Attention Economy2017-01-07T18:04:00+00:00
https://points.datasociety.net/hacking-the-attention-economy-9fa1daca7a37#.btsmwwrbe
jmThe Internet has long been used for gaslighting, and trolls have long targeted adversaries. What has shifted recently is the scale of the operation, the coordination of the attacks, and the strategic agenda of some of the players.
For many who are learning these techniques, it’s no longer simply about fun, nor is it even about the lulz. It has now become about acquiring power.
A new form of information manipulation is unfolding in front of our eyes. It is political. It is global. And it is populist in nature. The news media is being played like a fiddle, while decentralized networks of people are leveraging the ever-evolving networked tools around them to hack the attention economy.
]]>danah-boyd news facebook social-media gaslighting trolls 4chan lulz gamergate fake-newshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3d0fb16fbb96/Meeting the Free Speech Crusaders Who Want to End Political Correctness | VICE | United Kingdom2016-08-18T13:04:42+00:00
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/young-british-heritage-society-launch
jmgamergate funny sad trolls ybhs reactionaries uk politicshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8c143d4d768a/That time the Internet sent a SWAT team to my mom's house - Boing Boing2015-07-27T10:34:03+00:00
http://boingboing.net/2015/07/24/that-time-the-internet-sent-a.html
jmThe solution is for social media sites and the police to take threats or jokes about swatting, doxxing, and organized crime seriously. Tweeting about buying a gun and shooting up a school would be taken seriously, and so should the threat of raping, doxxing, swatting or killing someone. Privacy issues and online harassment are directly linked, and online harassment isn’t going anywhere. My fear is that, in reaction to online harassment, laws will be passed that will break down our civil freedoms and rights online, and that more surveillance will be sold to users under the guise of safety. More surveillance, however, would not have helped me or my mother. A platform that takes harassment and threats seriously instead of treating them like jokes would have.
]]>twitter gamergate 4chan 8chan privacy doxxing swatting harrassment threats social-media facebook law feminismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:cddb2809ac1f/Men who harass women online are quite literally losers, new study finds2015-07-21T10:55:23+00:00
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/07/20/men-who-harass-women-online-are-quite-literally-losers-new-study-finds/?postshare=2091437474775030
jm(1) players are anonymous, and the possibility of “policing individual behavior is almost impossible”; (2) they only encounter each other a few times in passing — it’s very possible to hurl an expletive at another player, and never “see” him or her again; and (3) finally, and perhaps predictably, the sex-ratio of players is biased pretty heavily toward men. (A 2014 survey of gender ratios on Reddit found that r/halo was over 95 percent male.) [....]
In each of these environments, Kasumovic suggests, a recent influx of female participants has disrupted a pre-existing social hierarchy. That’s okay for the guys at the top — but for the guys at the bottom, who stand to lose more status, that’s very threatening. (It’s also in keeping with the evolutionary framework on anti-lady hostility, which suggests sexism is a kind of Neanderthal defense mechanism for low-status, non-dominant men trying to maintain a shaky grip on their particular cave’s supply of women.)
“As men often rely on aggression to maintain their dominant social status,” Kasumovic writes, “the increase in hostility towards a woman by lower-status males may be an attempt to disregard a female’s performance and suppress her disturbance on the hierarchy to retain their social rank.”
]]>losers sexism mysogyny women halo gaming gamergate 4chan abuse harrassment papers bullying social-statushttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4d73ea51e369/Twitter CEO: 'We suck at dealing with abuse' | The Verge2015-02-05T11:11:08+00:00
http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/4/7982099/twitter-ceo-sent-memo-taking-personal-responsibility-for-the
jm'We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform and we've sucked at it for years. It's no secret and the rest of the world talks about it every day. We lose core user after core user by not addressing simple trolling issues that they face every day.
I'm frankly ashamed of how poorly we've dealt with this issue during my tenure as CEO. It's absurd. There's no excuse for it. I take full responsibility for not being more aggressive on this front. It's nobody else's fault but mine, and it's embarrassing.
We're going to start kicking these people off right and left and making sure that when they issue their ridiculous attacks, nobody hears them.
Everybody on the leadership team knows this is vital.'
More like this!]]>trolls twitter gamergate dickc abuse leaks social-mediahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:654066fa9cad/The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate2014-10-15T16:59:32+00:00
http://deadspin.com/the-future-of-the-culture-wars-is-here-and-its-gamerga-1646145844
jmLike, say, the Christian right, which came together through the social media of its day — little-watched television broadcasts, church bulletins, newsletters—or the Tea Party, which found its way through self-selection on social media and through back channels, Gamergate, in the main, comprises an assortment of agitators who sense which way the winds are blowing and feel left out. It has found a mobilizing event, elicited response from the established press, and run a successful enough public relations campaign that it's begun attracting visible advocates who agree with the broad talking points and respectful-enough coverage from the mainstream press. If there is a ground war being waged, as the movement's increasingly militaristic rhetoric suggests, Gamergate is fighting largely unopposed.
A more important resemblance to the Tea Party, though, is in the way in which it's focused the anger of people who realize the world is changing, and not necessarily to their benefit.
]]>culture gaming journalism gamergate tea-party grim-meathook-future culture-wars misogynyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9e1c2e636399/#Gamergate Trolls Aren't Ethics Crusaders; They're a Hate Group2014-10-13T22:51:27+00:00
http://jezebel.com/gamergate-trolls-arent-ethics-crusaders-theyre-a-hate-1644984010
jm#Gamergate, as they have treated myself and peers in our industry, is a hate group. This word, again, should not lend them any mystique or credence. Rather it should illuminate the fact that even the most nebulous and inconsistent ideas can proliferate wildly if strung onto the organizational framework of the hate group, which additionally gains a startling amount of power online. #Gamergate is a hate group, and they are all the more dismissible for it. And the longer we treat them otherwise, the longer I fear for our industry's growth.
]]>harassment gamergate abuse twitter hate-groups gaming misogynyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0b70285da68d/A Thing About #GamerGate - John Walker's Electronic House2014-10-12T22:01:49+00:00
http://botherer.org/2014/10/12/a-thing-about-gamergate/
jmgamergate rock-paper-shotgun rps games gaming politics misogyny sexism 4chan reddithttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:57fe07d516f2/Game Devs on Gamergate (with images, tweets)2014-10-11T21:47:52+00:00
https://storify.com/alexlifschitz/escapist-drama
jmethics gaming journalism the-escapist gamergate misogyny sexismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:96ba9afb4af5/Yet another woman in gaming has been driven from her home by death threats2014-10-11T21:40:51+00:00
http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/10/11/yet-another-woman-in-gaming-has-been-driven-from-her-home-by-death-threats/
jmgames harassment feminism misogyny 4chan 8chan mra trolls gamergatehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:563dae81a393/The Womansplainer2014-10-07T11:08:20+00:00
http://thewomansplainer.com/
jmfeminism gamergate funny mansplaining misandry misogyny twitter lmgtfyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:42082127d916/YOU AND YOUR DAMNED GAMES, JON STONE — Why bother with #gamergate?2014-10-06T22:53:59+00:00
http://jonstonechannel2.tumblr.com/post/99246356388/why-bother-with-gamergate
jmSo what is #gamergate? #gamergate is a mob with torches aloft, hunting for any combustible dwelling and calling it a monster’s lair. #gamergate is a rage train, and everyone with an axe to grind wants a ride. Its fuel is a sour mash of entitlement, insecurity, arrogance and alienation. #gamergate is a vindication quest for political intolerance. #gamergate is revenge for every imagined slight. #gamergate is Viz’s Meddlesome Ratbag.
]]>gamergate culture gaming 4chan mobs feminismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0ab2cd688273/How did Twitter become the hate speech wing of the free speech party?2014-10-06T11:30:24+00:00
http://www.kevinmarks.com/twitterhatespeech.html
jmYour tweet could win the fame lottery, and everyone on the Internet who thinks you are wrong could tell you about it. Or one of the "verified" could call you out to be the tribute for your community and fight in their Hunger Games.
Say something about feminism, or race, or sea lions and you'd find yourself inundated by the same trite responses from multitudes. Complain about it, and they turn nasty, abusing you, calling in their friends to join in. Your phone becomes useless under the weight of notifications; you can't see your friends support amongst the flood.
The limited tools available - blocking, muting, going private - do not match well with these floods. Twitter's abuse reporting form takes far longer than a tweet, and is explicitly ignored if friends try to help.
]]>harassment twitter 4chan abuse feminism hate-speech gamergate sea-lions filtering social-media kevin-markshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:05196a963f79/Confessions of a former internet troll - Vox2014-09-29T22:50:51+00:00
http://www.vox.com/2014/9/29/6840773/confessions-of-a-former-internet-troll
jmI want to tell you about when violent campaigns against harmless bloggers weren't any halfway decent troll's idea of a good time — even the then-malicious would've found it too easy to be fun. When the punches went up, not down. Before the best players quit or went criminal or were changed by too long a time being angry. When there was cruelty, yes, and palpable strains of sexism and racism and every kind of phobia, sure, but when these things had the character of adolescents pushing the boundaries of cheap shock, disagreeable like that but not criminal. Not because that time was defensible — it wasn't, not really — but because it was calmer and the rage wasn't there yet. Because trolling still meant getting a rise for a laugh, not making helpless people fear for their lives because they're threatening some Redditor's self-proclaimed monopoly on reason. I want to tell you about it because I want to make sense of how it is now and why it changed.
]]>vox trolls blogging gamergate 4chan weev history teenagershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:56e67be40f23/