“The agenda is to raise hell about all the hate on the Net,” he says. “To start a discussion.”
I wonder if he actually believes that. The description reads like a simple 2 minutes hate for TV ratings. A diet brand of that hidden camera catch-the-internet-pedo show.
Even putting that aside for a second, what does it mean when people in the media talk about "starting a discussion?" Whenever I hear it, it's said by someone that appears to have a mind already made up, from a media platform that doesn't value and engage in audience participation. Even bloggers with websites allowing comments tend to have an adversarial attitude towards their audience because of the signal to noise ratio in their comments, an attitude that pushes the level of signal down even further. The "discussion" often looks like like-minded bloggers talking amongst themselves lobbing pot-shots to and fro with a circle of differently likeminded bloggers.
We've been having a ground-up discussion about flaming and trolling on the internet for decades. Now that internet harassment has become a hot topic, the media has rolled in and is having a top-down discussion amongst self-appointed "very serious people" that seem rather incongruous with what my many years of experience on the internet.
I wonder if he actually believes that. The description reads like a simple 2 minutes hate for TV ratings. A diet brand of that hidden camera catch-the-internet-pedo show.
Even putting that aside for a second, what does it mean when people in the media talk about "starting a discussion?" Whenever I hear it, it's said by someone that appears to have a mind already made up, from a media platform that doesn't value and engage in audience participation. Even bloggers with websites allowing comments tend to have an adversarial attitude towards their audience because of the signal to noise ratio in their comments, an attitude that pushes the level of signal down even further. The "discussion" often looks like like-minded bloggers talking amongst themselves lobbing pot-shots to and fro with a circle of differently likeminded bloggers.
We've been having a ground-up discussion about flaming and trolling on the internet for decades. Now that internet harassment has become a hot topic, the media has rolled in and is having a top-down discussion amongst self-appointed "very serious people" that seem rather incongruous with what my many years of experience on the internet.