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Cara Project2 Final
Cara Project2 Final
Cara Project2 Final
Why
• Distant + Anonymous • Engagement & Manipulation
Attributing Anger to … • Misinformation • Polarized Resistance
• Internet Culture • Authorities’ Social Control
How
Solving Anger through… • To be discovered……
These emotions are so loud. Why?
ECHO CHAMBER:
Only likes and agreements
are visible
Why
• Distant + Anonymous • Engagement & Manipulation
Attributing Anger to … • Misinformation • Polarized Resistance
• Internet Culture • Authorities’ Social Control
How
Solving Anger through… • To be discovered……
Consequences ——Where are we going?
Xenophobia
People hate different others; intensify the conflicts
Social Control
Gossip Bully is actually a form of social control, as well as Xenophobia
Structure Overview
What
• Normal phenomenon
Observing Anger as …
• Angertainment
INTERNET ANGER
Why
• Distant + Anonymous • Engagement & Manipulation
Attributing Anger to … • Misinformation • Polarized Resistance
• Internet Culture • Authorities’ Social Control
How
Solving Anger through… • To be discovered……
Structure Overview
• Social Control
Social Control is
both a cause and a consequence
Cyberbully, Gossip bully, and Xenophobia can alway lit the anger, thus can…
Social Control is
both a cause and a consequence
Anger and
Social control
bully makes it
deliberately
a good fit for
irritates people
social control
We need to know that social media/internet
didn’t invent polarization.
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Works Cited
Xanthopoulos, Alicia Preston. “Preston Xanthopoulos: Nothing Entertaining about 'Angertainment.' It's
Destructive.” Portsmouth Herald, Portsmouth Herald, 2 Oct. 2022, https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/
opinion/columns/2022/10/02/preston-xanthopoulos-nothing-entertaining-angertainment/8127359001/.
Christine C. Kieffer Ph.D. ABPP (2013) Rumors And Gossip As Forms Of Bullying: Sticks And Stones?,
Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 33:2, 90-104, DOI: 10.1080/07351690.2013.764697
Saifuddin Ahmed, Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen, Arul Indrasen Chib, Xenophobia in the Time of a Pandemic: Social Media
Use, Stereotypes, and Prejudice against Immigrants during the COVID-19 Crisis, International Journal of Public
Opinion Research, Volume 33, Issue 3, Autumn 2021, Pages 637–653, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edab014
Bail, Christopher. Breaking the Social Media Prism : How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2021. Print.
Sheldon, Pavica, Philipp A. Rauschnabel, and James M. Honeycutt. The Dark Side of Social Media : Psychological,
Managerial, and Societal Perspectives. London ;: Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 2019. Print.
Shapiro, Ari, et al. “How the Polarizing Effect of Social Media Is Speeding Up.” NPR, NPR, 9 Sept. 2022, https://
www.npr.org/2022/09/09/1121295499/facebook-twitter-youtube-instagram-tiktok-social-media.
List of images used
Image[1-5] resources: screenshots of the headlines in Google News.