Academic work on the website 4chan?
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_anonymity_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
Hi Iain, You should definitely take a look at Gabriella Coleman's work ( http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Gabriella_Coleman) on Anonymous and get in touch with her for more information. She would be a great contact for you. Best, Matt --------------------------------------------------------- Matthew K. Gold, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, New York City College of Technology (English) and CUNY Graduate Center (Interactive Technology and Pedagogy) Project Director, CUNY Academic Commons <http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/> 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201 http://mkgold.net mattgold@gmail.com On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:15 AM, 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_anony...
, 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
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... 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@roehampton.ac.uk 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_anonymity_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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I emailed Iain directly, but for those interested, there's also Ray Vichot's MA thesis, "" Doing it for the lulz"?: online communities of practice and offline tactical media<http://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/28098> ." Alex --- Alexander Leavitt Researcher Microsoft Research New England Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Convergence Culture Consortium (Comparative Media Studies, MIT) http://alexleavitt.com http://doalchemy.org Twitter: @alexleavitt On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Iain Smith <iainrobertsmith@gmail.com>wrote:
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...
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@roehampton.ac.uk
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_anony... , 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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