Whitney Phillips (author)

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Whitney Phillips is an American media studies scholar and author. She studies online misinformation.[1]

She is assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University.[2]

Phillips received a BA in philosophy from Humboldt State University in 2004, a MFA in creative writing from Emerson College in 2007, and a PhD in English from the University of Oregon.[2]

Books[edit]

  • This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture (MIT, 2015)[3]
  • with Ryan M. Milner The Ambivalent Internet: Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online (Polity, 2017)[4][5][6][7]
  • with Ryan M. Milner You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape (MIT, 2021)[8][9][10]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Falk, Dan (April 8, 2022). "Interview: Whitney Phillips on Making Sense of Misinformation". Undark Magazine.
  2. ^ a b "Whitney Phillips". Syracuse University News. June 5, 2020.
  3. ^ Summit-Gil, Britney (2016). "This is why we can't have nice things: Mapping the relationship between online trolling and mainstream culture". New Media & Society. 18 (11): 2800–2802. doi:10.1177/1461444816661710. S2CID 35303709.
  4. ^ Oh, Dayei (July 3, 2019). "The ambivalent Internet: mischief, oddity, and antagonism online". Information, Communication & Society. 22 (8): 1189–1191. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2019.1606267. S2CID 151267282 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.
  5. ^ Driessen, Simone (June 23, 2019). "Book Review: The Ambivalent Internet. Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online". Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 25 (3): 567–568. doi:10.1177/1354856519854203. S2CID 198764951.
  6. ^ Deller, Rose (September 7, 2017). "Book Review: The Ambivalent Internet: Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online by Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner". LSE Review of Books. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  7. ^ https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1397299/FULLTEXT01.pdf
  8. ^ Heath, Mary (2021). "Book Review: You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape". New Media & Society. 23 (6): 1721–1723. doi:10.1177/1461444821999813. S2CID 233829319.
  9. ^ White, Andrew (August 18, 2022). "Review essay: fake news, and online misinformation and disinformation". Information, Communication & Society. 25 (11): 1669–1675. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2021.2000005. S2CID 244500560.
  10. ^ Patyk, Lynn Ellen (July 21, 2021). "We Are Where? Lost in the Disinformation Jungle". Los Angeles Review of Books.

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