Four weeks after our article on digital dynamics (‘The anatomy of the digital mob: When Factual Criticism Becomes a Betrayal“) Something interesting happened: The comment section itself became illustrative material. Not as an insignificant secondary setting, but as a living, plastic example of exactly those mechanisms that we had previously described on a theoretical level.
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“A media-critical case study on how comment areas become illustrative material: on Therapyspeak, perpetrator-victim reversal, transparency demands and the mechanisms of escalating digital bubbles.”
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