Bad actors never sleep
Content manipulation on Reddit
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12341908 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mike Potter (0000-0002-1681-6341, Deakin University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 706-718 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Continuum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1030-4312 • E-ISSN: 1469-3666 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10304312.2021.1983254 |
| OpenAlex | W3202671987 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 16 |
The self-proclaimed front page of the internet, Reddit is a many faceted site, described variously as an assemblage of online communities, a social news aggregation website and a social media site. Reddit is one of the most popular sites online both in terms of visitation and interaction. Central to Reddit’s popularity is its active community of users who contribute posts, comments and votes to subreddits resulting in a series of constantly changing bulletin boards comprised of over 3 billion submissions annually. Since its inception in 2005, Reddit has generated polarized engagement and responses to this community activity from wildly positive to highly toxic. Recent developments around perceived political manipulation of and on Reddit and accusations of content manipulation and censorship have raised questions of trust in the Reddit platform. Since 2019 Reddit has sought to identify and mitigate bad actor behaviour, address content manipulation and maintain the site’s authenticity and the historical context of Reddit’s attempts to address each is of central concern to this article. How this history then intersects with contemporary ideas of digital resignation and commons-based models of management informs analysis in the article on moderation practices, opens up new possibilities for future research into concepts of platform literacy and structural (digital) imagination
Censorship · Commons · Context (archaeology · Internet privacy · Media studies · Online community · Political science · Popularity · Public relations · Social media · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · History · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Social Media and Politics
How harassment and hate speech policies have changed over time
The Effects of Social Approval Signals on the Production of Online Hate
Addressing fraudulent responses in online surveys
From Governance Grievance to White Nationalism
The meme battlefield
Persistence and Attrition among Participants in a Multi-Page Online Survey Recruited via Reddit’s Social Media Network
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |