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

[Gabriella Coleman]

Hi,

Here is the video for Lisa Nakamura's talk (also very good).

http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2010/06/19/enlightened-racism-mmorpg/

Gabriella

On 02/07/2011 03:26 AM, Leurs, MA, K.H.A. (Koen) wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I know that Lisa Nakamura is working on 4chan too, following up her work
> on racialization of virtual labor.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Koen.
> 
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> Subject: Re: [Air-L] FW: Academic work on the website 4chan?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> So some other work to look out for:
> 
> Andres Monroy-Hernandez (and co-authors) are submitting a great article
> on 4chan
> 
> http://www.mit.edu/~amonroy/
> 
> Mike Wesch has a forthcoming chapter that looks at the anti-celebrity
> ethic among Anon. Also excellent.
> 
> http://ksuanth.weebly.com/wesch.html
> 
> Be on the look out for Luke Simcoe and Alex Leavitt who have also done
> really great work on 4chan and Anonymous.
> 
> http://alexleavitt.com/
> http://lukesimcoe.tumblr.com/
> 
> Kris Cohen has a great chapter on trolls in his dissertation
>  
> http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/mitchell/students.htm#Kris%20Cohe
> n
> 
> There is an edited collection The Offensive Internet that takes a look
> at anonymity, harassment, and offensive speech and has great pieces but
> generally fails to distinguish between behavior and the cultural
> tradition/norms at play.
> 
> I have a chapter tracing the politics of spectacle from phreaks to
> trolls coming out soon in an edited volume on social media and it should
> be posted on my website when it is (there is a small bit on 4chan).
> 
> A piece of mine on Anonymous will come out here in about a month:
> 
> http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/tne/about
> 
> 
> I might be missing some folks so I might be back later with more.
> 
> All best,
> Gabriella
> 
> 
>> ------ Forwarded Message
>> From: Iain Smith <iainrobertsmith at gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 18:38:13 +0000
>> To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Academic work on the website 4chan?
>>
>> 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-sciento
>> logy/
>>
>> 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-tro
>> lls-4c
>> han-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
>>
>> -----------------
>> 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_cas
>> e_for_anon ymity_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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