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moonwise4chan and /b/: An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community
I don't know whether I envy the researchers who spent weeks categorizing /b/ posts, or whether I pity them. They must be permanently scarred.
I don't know whether I envy the researchers who spent weeks categorizing /b/ posts, or whether I pity them. They must be permanently scarred.
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Date: 2011-06-29 05:32 pm (UTC)I don't know what is funnier either... the illustration in figure 1 or the teenstache in figure 4.
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Date: 2011-06-30 01:29 pm (UTC)Given how well-known MIT is for its pranks, this is a fantastic example of peer-reviewed trollery.
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Date: 2011-06-30 12:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-30 01:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-30 01:30 am (UTC)I haven't come across people reading 4chan, however.
I sort of. Almost wish. That I would have. Just so I could go, "Why, for the love of God?"
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Date: 2011-06-30 01:28 pm (UTC)If you do happen to come across a paper, you have to post it. :D
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Date: 2011-07-02 01:38 am (UTC)