Reading the Comments - Likers, Haters, and Manipulators At the Bottom of the Web

Informationen zum Autor Joseph M. Reagle, Jr. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University and the author of Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (MIT Press). Klappentext Online comment can be informative or misleading, entertaining or maddening. Haters and manipulators often seem to monopolize the conversation. Some comments are off-topic, or even topic-less. In this book, Joseph Reagle urges us to read the comments. Conversations ¿on the bottom half of the Internet,¿ he argues, can tell us much about human nature and social behavior. Zusammenfassung What we can learn about human nature from the informative! manipulative! confusing! and amusing messages at the bottom of the web.

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• Authors: Joseph M. Reagl Jr., Joseph M. Reagle Jr, Joseph M. Reagl Jr., Joseph Reagle, Joseph (Associate Professor Reagle, Joseph M Reagle, Joseph M. Reagle, Joseph M.. Reagle, Joseph Michael Reagle Jr.
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.04.2015
• EAN: 9780262028936
• ISBN: 978-0-262-02893-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Reading the Comments; The MIT Press; The MIT Press
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science