<div dir="ltr">Sorry for any cross posting...<br><div><br>Mechanisms of Exclusion: “We Are All Faceless Mobs Now, Dawg.”<br><br>New article on Furtherfield by Mez Breeze.<br><br>Mez
Breeze examines the inner workings of our contemporary internet rage
machine to identify its social and psychological causes.<br><br>"Today’s
online spaces are communication minefields. When interacting in
multiplayer games or social media niches, networks come drenched in
reactivity bile. And although we might seem to bile-dilute, instead we
intellectually saw at each other through a polite veneer. Here, civil
discourse is label-trotted. Discourse bile may also erupt in
balls-to-the-wall screaming matches. Such bouts involve trollbaiting,
d0xxing, and Internet Rage Machine power-ups. Whatever the
magnitude/form, online dialogues appear to be flooded with antagonistic
commentary."<br><br><a href="http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/mechanisms-of-exclusion">http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/mechanisms-of-exclusion</a></div></div>