Internet Drama: a consensual field study into online consensus building.
In the age of the internet, whatever appears to have consensus online is true, even if it isn’t. The converse is also true, anything that […]
Curious and Curiouser: ProRussia Twitter links to Trump as early as 2014
Saturday, September 8th, 2018. I stumbled upon a Twitter account this morning following a curiosity I found that to me reflects evidence of a troll […]
Oliver D. Smith, MediaWiki poster boy.
Depending on your search history and interests, there is a decent chance you’ve come across a number of articles written and edited across Wikipedia and […]
Follow the White Rabbit, indeed; Wiki wars, QAnon style
Wikipedia We Have a Problem has always focused on behaviors in collaborative, online consensus building. This case study began exploring “heated” consensus building on Wikipedia […]
True Tales from Weird Wikipedia: Incident at the Fringe Theory Noticeboard
Roger Stone, the infamous far-right political trickster strategist for Nixon and Trump, quipped in the brilliant Netflix documentary Get Me Roger Stone that “Politics isn’t theater. It’s […]
RationalWiki is gas lighting, lying, & covering up cross platform harassment
What Rome Viharo is claiming didn’t happen. And if it did, it wasn’t that bad. And if it was, that’s not a big deal. And if it […]
Will a definition of online harassment please stand up?
According to a recent Pew Study called Crossing the Line, What Counts as Online Harassment?, there is no consensus on what actually defines “online harassment”, especially […]
Come play the Wikipedia BLP-Palooza!
Last week Entrepreneur online featured a guest writer, Amy Osmond Cook – who blogged about “what she learned when her Wikipedia page was deleted”. Her biography […]
Oh Reddit and Twitter, am disappoint.
On social media platforms, the arc of justice is long and quite a dud. Last week on Twitter, reporter and self-declared “digital nazi hunter” Yair Rosenberg found […]
The Attack of David Gerard’s 50ft troll farm and the RationalWiki hustle.
RationalWiki trustees’ David Gerard and psychology professor Trent Toulouse appear to be quite an ambitious confederacy. Both Wikipedia editors, active within the community – maintain RationalWiki as a […]