“It Wasn’t Just the Trolls: Early Internet Culture, “Fun,” and the Fires of Exclusionary Laughter” by Whitney Phillips, Social Media and Society (2019).

Whitney Phillips interrogates the underside of ‘internet culture,’ and argues that it was representative of the discursive style and perspective of white men. To whom was the internet an accessible and hospitable place in the era of rights? To what extent should we see the arguments of rights proponents as susceptible to the critique Phillips makes of ‘internet culture?’

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