[Air-L] Academic work on the website 4chan?

[Iain Smith]

Hi Iain,

As Matt Gold suggests, Gabriella Coleman's work would be very useful.
You can listen to her talk on the topic at the following address
http://thenexthope.org/talks-list/ and there are a series of videos at
http://turbulence.org/blog/2010/04/13/free-speech-anonymous-vs-scientology/

Other academic work in the area that I have come across:

Alex Bair has a paper on Anonymous from an anthropological perspective
http://www.isu.edu/~holmrich/senior_symposium/seniors2008.pdf#page=47

Bill Kirkpatrick has an In Media Res post
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2010/08/23/please-feed-trolls-4chan-and-vernacular-media-policy

Henry Jenkins has a post on his blog (from an anonymous grad student)
http://henryjenkins.org/2008/04/anon.html

Whitney Philips is a PhD student in Oregon doing some work on trolling
and 4chan although I'm not sure if she has published any of it yet

Hope that is helpful!

Iain

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Dr Iain Robert Smith
Lecturer in Film
Department of Media, Culture and Language
Roehampton University
London  SW15 5SL
Email: Iain.Smith at roehampton.ac.uk




On 6 February 2011 14:15, Iain Ros MacKenzie <IRosMacKenzie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am curious to know if anyone on this list knows if there have been any
> pieces of academic work on the subject of 4chan and the phenomenon of
> anonymity on the Internet?  I've been doing some hunting of my own and have
> so far only found a TED presentation by the website's founder
> here<http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/christopher_m00t_poole_the_case_for_anonymity_online.html?awesm=on.ted.com_8Mmx>,
> newspaper articles, and of course the Wikipedia and Encyclopedia dramatica
> entries for the website, which, while interesting, will not be adequate (at
> least on their own) for the literature review section of my project.
>
> If anyone would be willing to point me in the right direction it would be
> much appreciated!
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Iain MacKenzie
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