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Surveys the online social habits of American teens and analyzes the role technology and social media plays in their lives, examining common misconceptions about such topics as identity, privacy, danger, and bullying.

A manifesto that lays out grievances in painstaking detail, titled: “My Twisted World,” describes stories from a childhood onward that seemed to have laid the foundation for anger towards women, “alpha males,” and society in general.Describing plans for a “Day of Retribution,” on which: “All of those beautiful girls I've desired so much in my life, but can never have because they despise and loathe me, I will destroy.”Rodger, 22, left six people dead in a knife and gun rampage in the Californian University of Isla Vista in May 2014, before apparently shooting himself in the head after a firefight with police.His killing spree began after he posted a chilling video on YouTube titled “Elliot Rodgers Retribution,” in which he threatened to "slaughter" women who had rebuffed him.

The perpetually insouciant glaze of his characters belies the sharp verbal and visual wit of Furie, who delivers a stoner classic for the Tumblr generation. In fact, Furie's wildly popular teenage weirdos became an overnight internet sensation when Pepe the Frog was widely adopted by users of 4chan and remixed ad infinitum from there (including uses by pop stars like Nicki Minaj and Katy Perry), giving Boy's Club built-in recognition with many.

It was easy for Elizabeth. She married the man she loved. It was harder for Ruth. She married Elizabeth's son and then found that, somehow, she could never quite measure up. This thriller examines what women want and what they fear, as Ruth confronts the shifting borders of her own sanity.

How 4chan and 8chan fuel white nationalism, inspire violence, and infect politics. The internet has transformed the ways we think and act, and by consequence, our politics. The most impactful recent political movements on the far left and right started with massive online collectives of teenagers. Strangely, both movements began on the same website: an anime imageboard called 4chan.org. It Came from Something Awful is the fascinating and bizarre story of sites like 4chan and 8chan and their profound effect on youth counterculture. Dale Beran has observed the anonymous messageboard community's shifting activities and interests since the beginning. Sites like 4chan and 8chan are microcosms of the internet itself—simultaneously at the vanguard of contemporary culture, politics, comedy and language, and a new low for all of the above. They were the original meme machines, mostly frequented by socially awkward and disenfranchised young men in search of a place to be alone together. During the recession of the late 2000’s, the memes became political. 4chan was the online hub of a leftist hacker collective known as Anonymous and a prominent supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement. But within a few short years, the site’s ideology spun on its axis; it became the birthplace and breeding ground of the alt-right. In It Came from Something Awful, Beran uses his insider’s knowledge and natural storytelling ability to chronicle 4chan's strange journey from creating rage-comics to inciting riots to—according to some—memeing Donald Trump into the White House.

Games are no longer confined to card tables and computer screens. Emmy award winning games like "The Fallen Alternate Reality Game" (based on the ABC show) or "The Lost Experience" (based on the CBS hit show)- are pervasive games in that they blur traditional boundaries of game play. This book gives game designers the tools they need to create cutting edge pervasive games.

HOW MUCH IS LIFE TRULY WORTH?Kusunoki used to believe he was destined for great things. Ostracized as a child, he held on to a belief that a good life was waiting for him in the years ahead. Now approaching the age of twenty, he’s a completely mediocre college student with no motivation, no dreams, and no money. After learning he can sell his remaining years—and just how little they’re worth—he chooses to divest himself of all but his last three months. Has Kusunoki truly destroyed his last chance to find happiness...or has he somehow found it?

Millions of people are producing and consuming knowledge via the digital components of the globalised, interconnected, and participatory “media ecosystem”, and this continues to have significant implications for society. However, the Internet exceeds the proverbial ‘bandwidth’ of researchers, and countless platforms and online environments have been overlooked and/or understudied. Consequently, there are substantial blind spots in what is known about the notorious and fully anonymous imageboard 4chan.org. 4chan ‘disproportionately’ influences the media ecosystem, and played a significant role in the consolidation of the extremist ‘alt-right’ and ‘Incel’ movements, but little is known about 4chan’s userbase. Based on the output of the PhD research of the same name, Dr Patrick Scolyer-Gray’s Fiction and Falsehood explores three research objectives, each achieved via a sociological mixed-methods ethnographic research design. First, using a combination of survey and interview data, the socio-political discourses that most frequently influence the socio-political perspectives of 4chan’s users are identified. The text offers empirical evidence that the most influential socio-political discourses on 4chan are consistent with an alt-right ideological framework. Second, how and why 4chan-discourses became integrated into the socio-political perspectives of the userbase is explored. The fine-grained insight provided by in-depth semi-structured interviews with 4chan-users is combined with Bourdieu’s ‘theory of practice’ to produce an explanatory framework based on ‘habitus-field congruency’. Third, empirical evidence of 4chan’s relationship with the public sphere is provided, and the implications of this relationship are explored. A formidable body of evidence dovetails into the author's argument that the memes produced by 4chan-users represent ‘symbolic ordnance’ that influence the public sphere by having a ‘disproportionate’ impact on the development of public opinion. A series of additional issues raised by 4chan’s relationship with the public sphere are also highlighted. 4chan, its users, the productions featured on the platform, intersections between discourses borne out of (or amplified by) 4chan and the broader information ecosystem and their respective interconnected relationships are examined in granular detail. Additionally, Fiction and Falsehood offers fresh insights into the origins and significance of the alt-right, a detailed exposition of methodological techniques of novelty and enduring relevance to researchers and private practitioners alike, and unique findings that will appeal to any reader interested in how online spaces are connected to broader societal trends.