On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:05 AM, Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote:
> "In fact, nonsense clarifies what matters about Internet tricksters like > LulzSec or the hordes of trolls that spew forth from sites like 4chan. > [...] > 4chan users often deploy their penchant for nonsense in a tactical > fashion. " > > There's a longer and more interesting history of net tricksterism than > that, but it demonstrates that people were thinking and acting > critically about the net before last Wednesday and so makes essays like > this one susceptible to historical contextualisation and critique. ;-) > "_Encyclopedia Dramatica_ – and the affiliated imageboard/meme propagation<http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/ted_blackmore>site *4chan <http://www.4chan.org/>** *- showcase the challenge faced by narrative frameworks. Platforms like _Encyclopedia Dramatica_ encourage troll-based <http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trolling>comedic intent. Users remix absurd, and sometimes taboo, content. In particular,* *invasion boards<http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=7chan>like _4chan_ utilize *shock networking***: *where social content attempts to subvert social codas through deliberate agitation. In comparison with established narrative conventions, platforms like _Encyclopedia Dramatica_ offer an experimental system which bypasses strict censorship and ethical constraints. These platforms cater for unfiltered interactions that operate via immediacy-of-response. They are highly idiosyncratic in execution<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10279618-26.html>and linguistic formation <http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Chanspeak>: censorship and moderation may be limited or non-existent. The output is propagative, with contributors encouraged to riff and rip-off, replace, and even delete content. Narrative is deformed beyond a sequential structure whereby the climax or pay-off event becomes the spectacle<http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord/8.htm>...An example of such modification is *Copypasta*, which consists of repeatedly copying and pasting blocks of text designed to evoke a heightened emotional response..._Copypasta_ derails notions of story or plot progression, resolution or dénouement <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9nouement>. It embodies context-counteraction* and meme perpetuation<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt15HCq4htw>. Dramatic intent shifts to reiterative moments containing affectivity spiking which ignores the rigors of institutionalized framing [think: morality, hierarchy or ownership]..." ["_Social Tesseracting_: Part 3"<http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2009/07/24/_social-tesseracting_-part-3/>, 2009] -- | facebook.com/MezBreezeDesign <http://www.facebook.com/MezBreezeDesign> | twitter.com/MezBreezeDesign | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mez_Breeze
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