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"Online comment can be informative or misleading, entertaining or maddening. Haters and manipulators often seem to monopolize the conversation. Some comments are off-topic, or even topic-less. In this book, Joseph Reagle urges us to read the comments. Conversations "on the bottom half of the Internet," he argues, can tell us much about human nature and social behavior. Reagle visits communities of Amazon reviewers, fan fiction authors, online learners, scammers, freethinkers, and mean kids. He shows how comment can inform us (through reviews), improve us (through feedback), manipulate us (through fakery), alienate us (through hate), shape us (through social comparison), and perplex us. He finds pre-Internet historical antecedents of online comment in Michelin stars, professional criticism, and the wisdom of crowds. He discusses the techniques of online fakery (distinguishing makers, fakers, and takers), describes the emotional work of receiving and giving feedback, and examines the culture of trolls and haters, bullying, and misogyny. He considers the way comment--a nonstop stream of social quantification and ranking--affects our self-esteem and well-being. And he examines how comment is puzzling--short and asynchronous, these messages can be slap-dash, confusing, amusing, revealing, and weird, shedding context in their passage through the Internet, prompting readers to comment in turn, "WTF?!?"--Publisher's description

World Encyclopedia (Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, November 20th, 1936) -- The Brain Organization of the Modern World (Lecture delivered in America, October and November, 1937) -- The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopedia (Contribution to the new Encyclopédic Française, August, 1937) -- Passage from a Speech to the Congrès Mondial de la Documentation Universelle, Paris, August 20th, 1937 -- The Informative Content of Education (Presidential Address to the Educational Science Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, September 12th, 1937) -- Appendix I. Ruffled Teachers (Sunday Chronicle, September 12th, 1937) -- Appendix II. Palestine in Proportion (Sunday Chronicle, October 3rd, 1937) -- Appendix III. The Fall in America 1937 (Collier's, January 28th, 1938) -- Appendix IV. Transatlantic Misunderstandings (Liberty, January 15th, 1938).