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Chargement... Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate (édition 2017)par Zoe Quinn (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreCrash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate par Zoë Quinn
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I wasn’t sure I wanted to read this as I thought it would be rather depressing, but I’m glad I checked it out. Internet abuse is a horrible thing to read about, and some really rotten things happened to Quinn, but I liked how she dedicated a large chunk of her book to prevention and suggestions of what to do if it happens to you. I really appreciate her repeated points that internet abuse is never OK, even toward the “deserving,” like the abusers themselves, and that she called herself out on past abusive behavior of her own. Her tips on how to support someone who has been the recipient of abuse were helpful and not always obvious, like not sharing anything without consent, even if it’s to share something that happened in order to express outrage. Another connected point was about how you inadvertently help spread toxic stuff by clicking on links to see what’s being said by abusers. Having just done some reading for a class on search engine optimization, this rang true. By linking to abusive content or following links, we’re adding to the “legitimacy” attributed to them by page ranking algorithms. The author emphasized that giving unsolicited advice or pressure about how to handle abuse is not as effective as offering support, listening, and pointing to the positive things they do instead of just this horrible thing that happened to them. Not defining people by the abuse they’ve endured is an important piece. I like how Quinn took a seemingly insurmountable problem and didn’t stop at helping herself but contributed considerably to the fight against the larger problem to help others too. Although she was pretty good about defining her jargon, I think the book would have benefited from a glossary of terms. I had to stop a few times and look things up. A valuable read, whether or not you’re an internet whiz kid, actually probably more so if you’re not. Hell this books gets depressing AF. Because you realize that nothing has ended or subsided. Because as she says, the reality is that the internet can never be a better place than the people who inhabit it. And the people who inhabit it are the ones who elected Trump, who voted for the Brexit, who put many major Nazi parties in many European countries' parliaments but cry that our main problem is political correctness and sjws. I like her voice. I always followed the gamer-gate debacle from the very beginning and was pretty invested in it for a couple of years. Writing feminist posts, creating podcasts raising awareness, trying to exist in online gaming spaces without being harassed -and failing at it, reading the stories of all these women being abused and nothing being done about it. And then, some time passed and I saw them creating again and I thought things were better for them, and I enjoyed the things they were creating thinking, hoping, that at least the relentless abuse they suffered daily had finally ended. SIGH Welp I sure am naive. I love and admire what Zoe has achieved, what she still achieves. I am in awe of her kindness and her strength in being able to write this, to create Crash Override, to help so many others. I am so sad that those misogynistic nerds managed to ruin her life and cause her so much damage and I’m grateful I got to read this book. I hope many people do. I hope they get disturbed enough to realize that we need to try and fix this. Gamegate was a sordid chapter in the history of the Internet, and Quinn's memoir puts you on the front lines of this multi-faceted, fateful phenomenon. Gamergate was the genesis of the alt-right (the term sounds quaint now), a proving ground; it was the thin edge of the far right. And here we are. At the time, no one knew what to make of it -I began one of the initial stub articles on it on Wikipedia when it was still regarded as a tempest in a tea cup, and it soon enough became the most contentious article on Wikipedia since Global Warming. Zoë Quinn was the first victim; this is her story. And this memoir is the first history -someone had to write it. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"You've heard the stories about the dark side of the internet--hackers, #gamergate, anonymous mobs attacking an unlucky victim, and revenge porn--but they remain just that: stories. Surely these things would never happen to you. Zoe Quinn used to feel the same way. She is a video game developer whose ex-boyfriend published a crazed blog post cobbled together from private information, half-truths, and outright fictions, along with a rallying cry to the online hordes to go after her. They answered in the form of a so-called movement known as #gamergate--they hacked her accounts; stole nude photos of her; harassed her family, friends, and colleagues; and threatened to rape and murder her. But instead of shrinking into silence as the online mobs wanted her to, she raised her voice and spoke out against this vicious online culture and for making the internet a safer place for everyone. In the years since #gamergate, Quinn has helped thousands of people with her advocacy and online-abuse crisis resource Crash Override Network. From locking down victims' personal accounts to working with tech companies and lawmakers to inform policy, she has firsthand knowledge about every angle of online abuse, what powerful institutions are (and aren't) doing about it, and how we can protect our digital spaces and selves. Crash Override offers an up-close look inside the controversy, threats, and social and cultural battles that started in the far corners of the internet and have since permeated our online lives. Through her story--as target and as activist--Quinn provides a human look at the ways the internet impacts our lives and culture, along with practical advice for keeping yourself and others safe online." -- Publisher's description Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Quick read. At a little over 200 pages, it's not a comprehensive analysis of every single thing that happened (and I'd guess other writers will document that at some point), but it's a great overview & more importantly, a toolbook to use in this current era of fake news and twitterbots. ( )