[Air-L] Seeking readings on "alternative" social media platforms

Thu Feb 4 17:36:00 PST 2021

It seems some (all?) didn’t get my attachment—my apologies. The list is below:

Aliapoulios, M, Bevensee, E, Blackburn, J, De Cristofaro, E, Stringhini, G & Zannettou, S ‘An Early Look at the Parler Online Social Network’. arXiv:2101.03820v2<https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03820v2> [cs.SI]

Benkler, Y, Faris, R & Roberts, H 2018, Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York.

Benkler, Y, Faris, R, Roberts, H & Zuckerman, E 2017, ‘Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda’, Columbia Journalism Review, accessed July 6, 2017, from https://www.cjr.org/analysis/breitbart-media-trump-harvard-study.php<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cjr.org%2Fanalysis%2Fbreitbart-media-trump-harvard-study.php&data=04%7C01%7Cshannon.oltmann%40uky.edu%7C0378491c2c7349bcec3508d8bbf8c590%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637466024436379064%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=QBqrv5HqWazSPjXaQ2WGjc1RWV%2FwkspLTwwKvdVx0PQ%3D&reserved=0>.
Bovet, A., & Makse, H.A. (2019). Influence of fake news in Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election. Nature Communications, 10(7). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07761-2.
Bryden, J., & Silverman, E. (2019). Underlying socio-political processes behind the 2016 US election. PLoS ONE, 14(4), e0214854. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214854
Conway, M., Scrivens, R. & Macnair, L. (2019). Right-wing exremists’ persistent online presence: History and contemporary trends. ICCT Policy Brief. Available at: https://icct.nl/app/uploads/2019/11/RWEXOnline-1.pdf.

Davis, M 2018, ‘“Culture is inseparable from race”: culture wars from Pat Buchanan to Milo Yiannopoulos’, M/C Journal, vol. 21, no. 5, accessed December 30, 2018, from http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/1484.

Davis, M 2019, ‘A new, online culture war? The communication world of Breitbart.com’, Communication, Research and Practice, 5(3), 241–254.
Freelon, D., Marwick, A., & Kreiss, D. (2020). False equivalencies: Online activism from left to right. Science, 369, 1197-1201.
Ganesh, B. (2018). The ungovernability of digital hate culture. Journal of International Affairs, 71(2), 30-49.
Ganesh, B. (2020). Weaponizing white thymos: Flows of rage in the online audience of the alt-right. Cultural Studies, 34(6), 892-924.
Khosravnik, M. (2017). Right wing populism in the West: Social media discourse ad echo chambers. Insight Turkey, 19(3), 53-68.
Kikerpill, K., Siibak, A., & Valli, S. (forthcoming). Chapter 2: Dealing with deepfakes: Reddit, online content moderation, and situational crime prevention. In Wiest, J.B. (Ed.), Theorizing criminality and policing in the digital media age, Vol. 20. Emerald Publishing Limited.

Klein, A 2019, ‘From Twitter to Charlottesville: Analyzing the Fighting Words Between the Alt-Right and Antifa’, International Journal of Communication, vol. 13, no. 0, p. 22.
Kramer, B. (2017). Populist online practices: The function of the internet in right-wing populism. Information, Communication, & Society, 20(9), 1293-1309.

Lines, BWG ‘Deplatforming and the rise of the alt-tech video hosting platform BitChute in 2020’. Available at: http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/blog/2020/09/27/deplatforming-and-bitchute/.

Ludemann, D 2018, ‘/pol/emics: Ambiguity, scales, and digital discourse on 4chan’, Discourse, Context & Media, 24, 92–98.

Manivannan, V 2013, ‘Tits or GTFO: The logics of misogyny on 4chan’s Random - /b/’, The Fibreculture Journal, 22, 109–132.

Nissenbaum, A & Shifman, L 2017, ‘Internet memes as contested cultural capital: The case of 4chan’s/b/board’, New Media & Society, 19(4), 483–501.
Pajnik, M. (2019). Media populism on the example of right-wing political parties’ communication in Slovenia. Problems of Post-Communism, 66(1), 21-32.

Phillips, W 2015, This is why we can’t have nice things: mapping the relationship between online trolling and mainstream culture, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Rogers, R. (2020). Deplatforming: Following extreme internet celebrities to Telegram and alternative social media. European Journal of Communication, 35(3), 213-229.
Scriven, R., Burruss, G.W., Holt, T.J., Chermak, S.M., Freilich, J.D., & Frank, R. (2020). Triggered by defeat or victory? Assessing the impact of presidential election results on extreme right-wing mobilization online. Deviant Behavior. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2020.1807298.

Sparby, EM 2017, ‘Digital Social Media and Aggression: Memetic Rhetoric in 4chan’s Collective Identity’, Computers and Composition, vol. 45, pp. 85–97.
Tischauser, J. & Musgrave, K. (2020). Far-right media as imitated counterpublicity: A discourse analysis on racial meaning and identity on Vdare.com. Howard Journal of Communications, 31(3), 282-296.

Trujillo, M, Gruppi, M, Buntain, C & Horne, BD 2020, ‘What is BitChute? Characterizing the" Free Speech”Alternative to YouTube’. arXiv:2004.01984v3<https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01984v3> [cs.CY]

Tuters, M & Hagen, S 2019, ‘(((They))) rule: Memetic antagonism and nebulous othering on 4chan’:, New Media & Society, accessed September 11, 2020, from <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444819888746<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.sagepub.com%2Fdoi%2F10.1177%2F1461444819888746&data=04%7C01%7Cshannon.oltmann%40uky.edu%7C0378491c2c7349bcec3508d8bbf8c590%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637466024436389061%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=Z2h9qRbQUIk4JQTJ%2BA3IOXf5rjS4%2Bkj78f%2FbFsN5w34%3D&reserved=0>>.
Wieringa, M., van Geenen, D., Schafer, M.T., & Gorzeman, L. Political topic-communities and their framing practices in the Dutch Twittersphere. Internet Policy Review, 7(2). Available at: https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/political-topic-communities-and-their-framing-practices-dutch-twittersphere.

Zelenkauskaite, A, Toivanen, P, Huhtamäki, J & Valaskivi, K 2021, ‘Shades of hatred online: 4chan duplicate circulation surge during hybrid media events’, First Monday, vol. 26, no. 1, accessed January 11, 2021, from <https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/11075<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffirstmonday.org%2Fojs%2Findex.php%2Ffm%2Farticle%2Fview%2F11075&data=04%7C01%7Cshannon.oltmann%40uky.edu%7C0378491c2c7349bcec3508d8bbf8c590%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637466024436399052%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=MPuJi8wUNtE3cy2a1UEGq3R9IdtqmexwPNV6ovTJk2Q%3D&reserved=0>>.

Zhou, Y., Dredze, M., Broniatowski, D.A., & Adler, W.D. (2019). Elites and foreign actors among the alt-right: The Gab social media platform. First Monday, 24(9).

Shannon M. Oltmann, Ph.D.
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School of Information Science
College of Communication & Information
University of Kentucky
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From: Oltmann, Shannon M.<mailto:shannon.oltmann at uky.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2021 3:23 PM
To: aoir list<mailto:air-l at aoir.org>
Subject: RE: Seeking readings on "alternative" social media platforms

Hello. Please see attached for the readings that were recommended to me, as well as some others that I found. I was also recommended to Joan Donovan’s work in general, which I’m still perusing. Hope others find this list useful.

-Shannon

Shannon M. Oltmann, Ph.D.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Associate Professor
School of Information Science
College of Communication & Information
University of Kentucky
shannon.oltmann at uky.edu<mailto:shannon.oltmann at uky.edu>
Editor, Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy
Associate Editor, Library Quarterly

From: Oltmann, Shannon M.<mailto:shannon.oltmann at uky.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2021 3:27 PM
To: aoir list<mailto:air-l at aoir.org>
Subject: Seeking readings on "alternative" social media platforms

Hello everyone. I’m working on a collaborative paper that touches on some of the newish, “alternative” social media platforms, including things like Parler, MeWe, Gab, and Rumble. We are looking for reading (academic articles, white papers, works in progress, and news media) that addresses the politicization of social media platforms and the rise of these so-called alternative platforms, including the types of content that are seen as problematic/ that flourish. We definitely want to read broadly at this point, so any suggestions you have are welcome. I’m happy to create a list of recommendations and re-circulate that.

Thanks!

-Shannon Oltmann

Shannon M. Oltmann, Ph.D.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Associate Professor
School of Information Science
College of Communication & Information
University of Kentucky
shannon.oltmann at uky.edu<mailto:shannon.oltmann at uky.edu>
Editor, Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy
Associate Editor, Library Quarterly