Article:
Shitstorm. Das eigentliche Übel der vernetzten Gesellschaft

Author(s): Gaderer, Rupert

Abstract

The term »shitstorm« describes the phenomenon of people, companies or institutions being abused and degraded via digital technologies. The waves of outrage start with the anger of a few individuals but then rapidly develop into a conflict of many participants due to their media-technological parameters. Despite the scope of the »symptoms«, mediacultural analyses of this phenomenon are few and far between. This in turn refers to an approach of the »shitstorm«-phenomenon taken in the present article: first it will discuss the historicity of digital phenomena, second the technological infrastructures, and third the operations linked with those infrastructures that can be considered a ›Hetzschwarm‹

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Gaderer, Rupert: Shitstorm. Das eigentliche Übel der vernetzten Gesellschaft. In: ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung, Jg. 9 (2018), Nr. 2, S. 27-42. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18708.
@ARTICLE{Gaderer2018,
 author = {Gaderer, Rupert},
 title = {Shitstorm. Das eigentliche Übel der vernetzten Gesellschaft},
 year = 2018,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18708}",
 volume = 9,
 address = {Hamburg},
 journal = {ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung},
 number = 2,
 pages = {27--42},
}
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