Abstract
Falero discusses the many ways the community at Television Without Pity was “managed” by discussion moderators, site-wide policies, and the corporation that eventually came to own the site. The technology used by the site, and the management of “infractions” through it, created real limitations on discussion. The labyrinth of rules that developed as the membership grew served to stifle discussion, particularly political speech. A study of the fringe spaces of Television Without Pity shows how vulnerable political discussion can be in online social platforms.
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Matthew Hindman, The Myth of Digital Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009) 5–6.
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Matthew Hindman, The Myth of Digital Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009) 12.
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Not only had the site conducted interviews with producers and writers of popular programs, those producers and writers mentioned that a lot of people working in the TV industry know about and consult TWoP as part of market research.
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Stephanie Lucianovic, personal interview with author, 25 July, 2015.
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Nicole Neroulias, “Couch Potatoes Thrive Online,” Columbia News Service, http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/cns/2002-03-04/234.asp [accessed June 20, 2002].
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Matthew Hindman, The Myth of Digital Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009) 13.
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Matthew Hindman, The Myth of Digital Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009) 9.
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Matthew Hindman, The Myth of Digital Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009) 18.
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Falero, S.M. (2016). “Network Interference”: Policing Conversation and Political Discourse. In: Digital Participatory Culture and the TV Audience. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50000-7_6
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