Gaming the Dynamics of Online Harassment

Download or read book Gaming the Dynamics of Online Harassment written by Kevin Veale and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that online harassment communities function as Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) where the collective goal is to ruin peoples’ lives. Framing these communities like ARGs highlights ways to limit their impact in the future, partly through offering people better ways to control their own safety online. The comparison also underlines the complicity of social networks in online harassment, since the communities use their designs as tools. Social networks know this, and need to work on minimizing the problem, or acknowledge that they are profiting through promoting abuse.