Gaming the Dynamics of Online Harassment

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-60412-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 241 g

This book argues that online harassment communities function as Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) where the collective goal is to ruin peoples’ lives.  Framing these communities like ARGs highlights ways to limit their impact in the future, partly through offering people better ways to control their own safety online.

The comparison also underlines the complicity of social networks in online harassment, since the communities use their designs as tools.  Social networks know this, and need to work on minimizing the problem, or acknowledge that they are profiting through promoting abuse. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Veale, Kevin

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Internet, E-Mail, Social Media
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: The Breadth of Harassment Culture, and Contextualising Gamergate.- 2. Networked Publics of Abuse.- 3. Exploring the Overlap Between Hatemobs and ARGs.- 4. Gaming the Rules.- 5. Problematic Tools and Platform Complicity.- 6. Reshaping the Landscape.- 7. Conclusion: The Christchurch Call to Action Summit, And What Follows.

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin Veale is a Lecturer in Media Studies for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Massey University in Aotearoa-New Zealand.  His work focuses on storytelling across media forms, and exploring the ways that different forms of mediation shape the affective experiences of the stories they mediate.