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The Ambivalent Internet
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The Ambivalent Internet investigates how online platforms simultaneously empower and undermine civic engagement, public discourse, and democratic norms.
Whitney Phillips explores how platform architectures, community norms, and media practices produce ambivalent outcomes—facilitating both progressive mobilization and reactionary backlash.
Through case studies and theoretical framing, the book examines how users and platforms negotiate meaning, influence, and responsibility in online spaces.
Phillips highlights how affordances of social media interact with historical and cultural forces to produce unpredictable political and social effects.
The work calls for nuanced ethical approaches and institutional reforms to mitigate harms while preserving democratic potentials of internet technologies.
Whitney Phillips explores how platform architectures, community norms, and media practices produce ambivalent outcomes—facilitating both progressive mobilization and reactionary backlash.
Through case studies and theoretical framing, the book examines how users and platforms negotiate meaning, influence, and responsibility in online spaces.
Phillips highlights how affordances of social media interact with historical and cultural forces to produce unpredictable political and social effects.
The work calls for nuanced ethical approaches and institutional reforms to mitigate harms while preserving democratic potentials of internet technologies.
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