[ecrea] New Book: Uncovering Commenting Culture: Trolls, Fanobys and Lurkers

The new book: /Uncovering Commenting Culture: Trolls, Fanboys and 
Lurkers/ is now available from Palgrave.


http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319702346

Uncovering Online Commenting Culture - Trolls, Fanboys | Renee Barnes | 
Palgrave Macmillan <http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319702346>
www.palgrave.com

This book charts commenting territory and outlines why we behave in 
certain ways online, and helps us to understand it....

 From the cover:

In today’s digital world our social interactions often take place in the 
form of written comments. We chat, disagree, worship, vent, confess, and 
even attack in written form in public digital spaces. Drawing on 
scholarly literature from media and cultural studies, psychology and 
sociology, /Uncovering Commenting Culture/ charts this commenting 
territory and outlines why we behave in these ways online. In this 
timely book, Renee Barnes provides a participatory model for 
understanding commenting culture that is based on the premise that our 
behaviours online–including those that cause us most the concern–are not 
so much an internet problem as a social problem. By looking at a wide 
variety of online commenting habitats, from the comment threads 
following news stories, through to specialist forums and social media 
platforms, the volume provides a comprehensive understanding of the role 
of online commenting in society and provides suggestions for how we 
might mitigate bad behaviours.


About the book:

  * Systematically looks at why we behave the way we do online, in all
    spaces from the comment threads of news stories, to specialist
    forums, through to social media platforms
  * Draws on a broad range of research including that from media and
    cultural studies, psychology and anthropology
  * Fills a gap by providing scholars who are turning increasing
    attention to the online realm, and students navigating new media, a
    method for interpreting online comments’ role in society

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