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DOI:10.1177/1461444815608807 - Corpus ID: 9236382
@article{Massanari2017GamergateAT, title={\#Gamergate and The Fappening: How Reddit’s algorithm, governance, and culture support toxic technocultures}, author={Adrienne L Massanari}, journal={New Media \& Society}, year={2017}, volume={19}, pages={329 - 346}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:9236382}}- Adrienne L Massanari
- Published in 1 March 2017
- Sociology
The ways in which Reddit’s karma point system, aggregation of material across subreddits, ease of subreddit and user account creation, governance structure, and policies around offensive content serve to provide fertile ground for anti-feminist and misogynistic activism are considered.
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