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%20Cohen 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@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 18:38:13 +0000 To: <air-l@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-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-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
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On 6 February 2011 14:15, Iain Ros MacKenzie <IRosMacKenzie@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_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!
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