All posts tagged trolls
TummelVision 78: Jim Bower
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Jim Bower (@superid101) joins us to discuss his work with Whyville, animal husbandry, and computational neuroscience.
Notes & Links
- Bower Lab
- Numedeon, Inc.
- Heather: “Whyville is 1st site we’ve heard of that allows avatar changes in context response: taping -bullies get avatars duct taped“
- The view from Salesforce where Kevin, Deb, and Heather broadcast together for the first time in ages.
TummelVision 60: Courtney Stanton on empathy, rape culture, and how to tummel haters
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- “Why a lack of empathy is the root of all evil” - The Independent (UK)
- Are you evil? Find out, by taking researcher Simon Baron-Cohen’s empathy test
- “USA Today Takes the Plunge: Paper to Pay Bonuses to Writers Based on Page Views” - Big Lead Sports
- “Google Saves The News!” – Forbes
- “The Suck Fairy” – Jo Walton at Tor.com
- “100 Things You Should Know About People: #8 — Dopamine Makes You Addicted To Seeking Information” – Susan Weinschenk, Ph.D. - What Makes Them Click
- “Listen to Yourself” – xkcd
- “Ben Folds, Damian Kulash, Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman to Write, Record Eight Songs in Eight Hours” – Berklee College of Music
Links related to Courtney’s experiences in confronting rape, sex, and trolling in gaming communities:
- “The Pratfall of Penny Arcade” Debacle Timeline
- The original ‘rape as punchline’ comic, the same joke independently invented without the rape, and the “apology” comic.
- Courtney’s Ignite talk on “troll analytics” and her accompanying research analysis.
- Flamer bingo by Teresa Nielsen-Hayden – phrases to look out for
- “A woman walks into a rape, uh, bar” – Fugitivus
While you listen, you can follow the smart comments from our lively chat room by replaying the CoveritLive discussion.
If you’re interested in hearing more of Courtney’s fascinating insights, check out the supplemental discussion in episode “60.5.”
TummelVision 16: Teresa Nielsen-Hayden and Scott Rosenberg the uber-tummlers tell us how it’s done
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We speak with two great tummlers in this episode. Teresa Nielsen-Hayden is a science fiction editor and was the first boingboing comments moderator when they returned to comments in 2007. Teresa is also a blogger and the first person to practice disemvoweling online of the entire text of offensive posts.
Most important to us, she’s the original applier of the term tummel to social catalyzing in the web era (she discussed it with Kevin and then the three of us had a collective aha moment. See our story on the about page.)
Also joining us is early blogger, journalist, long-time Salong writer and editor and blogging historian Scott Rosenberg.
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