RSA Conversations

How Internet Culture Poisoned Politics, with Whitney Phillips

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Is it inevitable that the internet and social media drive us to the extremes? Or do they just hold up a mirror to an already divided culture? And we explore the dark side of the internet – trolls, racist memes, hate-filled comment sections and increasingly virulent culture wars – and ask whether it hijacked the White House.

Guest

  • Whitney Phillips, Assistant Professor of Communication, Culture, and Digital Technologies at Syracuse University, and author of ‘This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture’

    • Links

    • Whitney Phillips on Twitter
    • Whitney's May 2018 report for Data & Society: The Oxygen of Amplification: Better Practices for Reporting on Extremists, Antagonists, and Manipulators Online
    • Whitney's 2016 article for Slate: 'Donald Trump Is Not a Troll'
    • Ian Leslie on Twitter
    • Matthew Taylor on Twitter

      • Produced by James Shield.

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