Content tagged "Twitter"
-
Building Dark Patterns into Platforms: How GamerGate Perturbed Twitter’s User Experience
“GamerGate trapped both its unwilling targets and willing participants in an unending cycle of rhetorical invention through a mechanism of aggressive, hostile, mob-like activism.”
-
From Trump Tower to the White House, in 140 Characters: The Hyper-Mediated Election of a Paranoid Populist President
Trump’s political communications reached a wider audience, on a sturdier basis, than earlier figures who had similarly adopted a “paranoid populist” philosophy.
-
Podcast: André Brock, “Black + Twitter: A Cultural Informatics Approach”
André Brock unpacks Black Twitter use from two perspectives: analysis of the interface and associated practice alongside discourse analysis of Twitter’s utility and audience.
-
Black + Twitter: A Cultural Informatics Approach
André Brock, scholar of Black cyberculture, offers that Twitter’s feature set and ubiquity map closely onto Black discursive identity.
-
In Medias Res, Fall 2014
Featuring the photography of B.D. Colen, introductions to Coco Fusco and Marjorie Liu, the awesomeness of @mitblogs_ebooks, and alumni updates.
-
So @mitblogs_ebooks exists
“In making @mitblogs_ebooks, I learned a lot, and sometimes the thing I made even makes me laugh because of how weird it is.”
-
Henry Jenkins cited, from corporate policies to religious tweeting
Henry Jenkins has suggested that companies may one day recruit whole groups that form around online games.
