Participatory Culture, Community, and Play
Learning from Reddit
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Adrienne L. Massanari
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- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2015. VI, 215 pp., num. ill.
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Why reddit?
- Contemporary media cultures and gatekeeping in Web 2.0+
- A few notes on method
- Overview of this book
- Notes
- Chapter 2. Defining reddit
- Reddit as carnival
- Reddit as performance/ritual
- Reddit as play
- Reddit as community
- Reddit as platform
- What reddit is not
- Notes
- Chapter 3. Cynicism, altruism, and hating everything, including ourselves
- Altruism and its limits
- RedditGifts
- Comment gilding and tipping
- Cynicism on reddit: the case of /r/cringe and /r/cringepics
- Activism and mobilization
- Reddit detectives or reddit mob?
- Pseudoanonymity, authenticity, and the reddit community
- OP is a faggot
- How redditors view themselves
- Rewarding the authentic; punishing the disingenuous
- Notes
- Chapter 4. Reliving the past [REPOST]
- Community membership—the transition from newbie to “redditor”
- Why everyone hates the defaults
- Reddiquette and its discontents
- Reddit’s obsession with and repudiation of its own history
- Subreddit “drift”
- Repost policing and memetic retelling
- Eternal September and /r/SummerReddit
- Meta-subreddits
- Remember the karma while tipping your fedora: /r/circlejerk
- Watching drama unfold in /r/SubredditDrama
- From patterned interaction to the reddit circlejerk/hivemind
- Notes
- Chapter 5. Playing seriously
- Patterns of play
- Memes
- Pun and pile-on threads
- Reaction GIFs
- Novelty accounts
- Bots
- Novelty subreddits
- RES tagging and the reddit switcharoo
- CSS modifications and flair
- Karma(ic) rewards
- Karmawhoring and shitposting
- Reputation and voting behavior
- Reddit rules
- Inverting play
- Trolling
- What reddit can teach us about play
- Notes
- Chapter 6. Open platforms, closed discourse
- Geek culture and hegemonic masculinities
- Reddit’s male gaze
- NSFW subreddits and content
- /r/MensRights, /r/TheRedPill, and /r/seduction
- Scumbag Stacys, Good Girl Ginas, Overly Attached Girlfriends, Redditor Wives, and College Liberals
- /r/ShitRedditSays (SRS) and its contrarians
- SRS as counterperformance and transgressive play
- Insider vs. outsider critiques
- Where open-source idealism meets reality
- Notes
- Chapter 7. Conclusion
- The future of reddit
- Revisiting the politics of platforms
- The end of participatory culture?
- Future directions
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Chapter 2. Defining reddit
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DEFINING REDDIT
When asked what I was working on during this book project, I would simply say, “Oh, it’s a book about this online space, reddit.” Inevitably, the person I was talking to would respond in one of two ways: nod knowingly and then launch into her own story about her experience with the site, or, much more likely, ask innocently, “What’s reddit?” I would then reply with one of my stock answers, “It’s a social news-sharing site,” or “It’s a link aggregator,” or “It’s an online community.” If the person still seemed interested, I would clarify further: “Well, it’s not just a social news-sharing site, it’s also a community. Anyone can create what’s called a subreddit and share links of interest. Like Swedish death metal? There’s a subreddit for that (/r/melodicdeathmetal) and people who want to talk about it. Interested in calligraphy? There’s a subreddit for that, too (/r/Calligraphy). Do you drink beer in the shower? Awesome—there’s also a subreddit for that (/r/showerbeer). But the really interesting stuff happens in the discussions around those links. It’s kind of like a community, message board, carnival, and play space rolled into one. Oh, and yeah—you should know there’s some really disturbing stuff too. It’s kind of like the best and worst parts of the internet and humanity rolled up into one space.” And, we would go from there—with me relying on all kinds of metaphors to try to describe elements...
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Why reddit?
- Contemporary media cultures and gatekeeping in Web 2.0+
- A few notes on method
- Overview of this book
- Notes
- Chapter 2. Defining reddit
- Reddit as carnival
- Reddit as performance/ritual
- Reddit as play
- Reddit as community
- Reddit as platform
- What reddit is not
- Notes
- Chapter 3. Cynicism, altruism, and hating everything, including ourselves
- Altruism and its limits
- RedditGifts
- Comment gilding and tipping
- Cynicism on reddit: the case of /r/cringe and /r/cringepics
- Activism and mobilization
- Reddit detectives or reddit mob?
- Pseudoanonymity, authenticity, and the reddit community
- OP is a faggot
- How redditors view themselves
- Rewarding the authentic; punishing the disingenuous
- Notes
- Chapter 4. Reliving the past [REPOST]
- Community membership—the transition from newbie to “redditor”
- Why everyone hates the defaults
- Reddiquette and its discontents
- Reddit’s obsession with and repudiation of its own history
- Subreddit “drift”
- Repost policing and memetic retelling
- Eternal September and /r/SummerReddit
- Meta-subreddits
- Remember the karma while tipping your fedora: /r/circlejerk
- Watching drama unfold in /r/SubredditDrama
- From patterned interaction to the reddit circlejerk/hivemind
- Notes
- Chapter 5. Playing seriously
- Patterns of play
- Memes
- Pun and pile-on threads
- Reaction GIFs
- Novelty accounts
- Bots
- Novelty subreddits
- RES tagging and the reddit switcharoo
- CSS modifications and flair
- Karma(ic) rewards
- Karmawhoring and shitposting
- Reputation and voting behavior
- Reddit rules
- Inverting play
- Trolling
- What reddit can teach us about play
- Notes
- Chapter 6. Open platforms, closed discourse
- Geek culture and hegemonic masculinities
- Reddit’s male gaze
- NSFW subreddits and content
- /r/MensRights, /r/TheRedPill, and /r/seduction
- Scumbag Stacys, Good Girl Ginas, Overly Attached Girlfriends, Redditor Wives, and College Liberals
- /r/ShitRedditSays (SRS) and its contrarians
- SRS as counterperformance and transgressive play
- Insider vs. outsider critiques
- Where open-source idealism meets reality
- Notes
- Chapter 7. Conclusion
- The future of reddit
- Revisiting the politics of platforms
- The end of participatory culture?
- Future directions
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index