How to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically.Our media environment is in crisis. Polarization is rampant. Polluted information floods social media. Even our best efforts to help clean up can backfire, sending toxins roaring across the landscape. In You Are Here, Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner offer strategies for navigating increasingly treacherous information flows. Using ecological metaphors, they emphasize how our individual me is entwined within a much larger we, and how everyone fits within an ever-shifting network map.
Whitney Phillips Bücher
Whitney Phillips beschäftigt sich mit den Feinheiten der digitalen Kultur und des Online-Diskurses. Ihre Arbeit untersucht kritisch Themen wie Online-Belästigung, das Zusammenspiel von medialem Einfluss und Identität sowie die ethischen Dimensionen der Social-Media-Nutzung. Phillips erforscht das dynamische Wechselspiel zwischen volkstümlichen Ausdrucksformen, staatlichen und unternehmerischen Kräften sowie aufkommenden Technologien und analysiert gleichzeitig die Rolle politischer Memes und digitaler bürgerlicher Partizipation. Ihre Forschung und Publikationen bieten tiefe Einblicke in die komplexe Landschaft der Online-Kommunikation und ihre gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen.



This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
- 256 Seiten
- 9 Lesestunden
Why the troll problem is actually a culture problem: how online trolling fits comfortably within today's media landscape.
"We know that pollution damages our physical environments--but what about the digital landscape? Touching on everything from goat memes gone wrong to conflict in group chats to the sometimes unexpected side effects of online activism, this lively guide to media literacy draws on ecological, social justice, and storytelling frameworks to help readers understand how information pollution spreads and why. It also helps them make sense of the often stressful and strange online world. Featuring a hyperconnected cast of teens and their social-media shenanigans, reader-friendly text tackles the thorny topic of internet ethics while empowering--and inspiring--young readers to weave a safe, secure, and inclusive digital world"--Publisher's description.