R/WatchRedditDie and the politics of reddit’s bans and quarantines
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13118975 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia R Decook (0000-0002-2704-1318, Loyola University Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 206-222 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Internet Histories (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2470-1475 • E-ISSN: 2470-1483 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/24701475.2021.1997179 |
| OpenAlex | W3209280619 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 38 |
The subreddit r/WatchRedditDie was founded in 2015 after reddit started implementing anti-harassment policies, and positions itself as a “fire alarm for reddit” meant to voyeuristically watch reddit’s impending (symbolic) death. As conversations around platform governance, moderation, and the role of platforms in controlling hate speech become more complex, r/WatchRedditDie and its affiliated subreddits are dedicated in maintaining a version of reddit tolerant of any and all speech, excluding other more vulnerable users from fully participating on the platform. r/WatchReditDie users advocate for no interference in their activities on the platform—meaning that although they rely on the reddit infrastructure to sustain their community, they aim to self-govern to uphold a libertarian and often manipulated interpretation of free expression. Responding to reddit’s evolving policies, they find community with one another by positioning the platform itself as their main antagonist. Through the social worlds framework, I examine the r/WatchRedditDie community’s responses to platform change, bringing up new questions about the possibility of shared governance between platform and user, as well as participatory culture’s promises and perils
Business · Citizen journalism · Corporate governance · Internet privacy · Interpretation (philosophy · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Moderation · Participatory culture · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social media · Sociology · Computer Science · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
Behind the Screen
Participatory Culture, Community, and Play
Null
The Sage Handbook of Social Media
Reddit quarantined
Toxic Geek Masculinity in Media
Network Propaganda
Evaluating the legitimacy of platform governance
Racism, Hate Speech, and Social Media
Liberal Illiberalism? The Reshaping of the Contemporary Populist Radical Right in Northern Europe
Charlottesville and the alt-right
Beyond the hashtag
Platform dialectics
Gamergate and The Fappening
Censored, suspended, shadowbanned
Women in Computing
Social media monitoring
Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism
Disinformation as a Threat to Deliberative Democracy
The “Arbiters of What Our Voters See
The politics of 'platforms
What is platform governance
White supremacy, white counter-revolutionary politics, and the rise of Donald Trump
This is Not a Boundary Object
Nostalgia, Entitlement and Victimhood
The Civic Labor of Volunteer Moderators Online
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |