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Participatory Culture, Community, and Play - Learning from Reddit (Paperback, New edition)
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Participatory Culture, Community, and Play - Learning from Reddit (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Digital Formations, 75
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What does online community look like in the age of social
networking? How do participatory culture platforms reflect both
their designers' intentions and the desires of their users? In this
incisive and timely work, Adrienne L. Massanari discusses how
culture is created and challenged on Reddit.com, the
self-proclaimed "front page of the internet". Reddit enables the
sharing of original and reposted content from around the web, and
provides a platform for like-minded individuals to commune around
topics of interest - everything from the joys of drinking beer in a
shower (/r/showerbeer) to celebrating the pleasures of tidy
penmanship (/r/penmanshipporn). Massanari's ethnographic work
provides a detailed examination of the contradictions that shape
Reddit's culture and how they reflect its role as an epicenter of
geek culture. The book explores the ways in which community on
Reddit is formed and solidified through play and humor, and the
complex ways in which Redditors come together, which demonstrate a
deep capacity for altruism and charitable giving, but can easily
lapse into mob action. It also explores the community's troubling
gender and racial politics and how some Redditors are carving out
their own space on the site to fight back.
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