“We live in a world where politics leads to a 38-point gap on whether a movie about slavery should win an Oscar — an issue, for the record, that neither the Democratic nor Republican parties had any official, or even unofficial, position on. But partisans knew intuitively which side to take.”
– Gamergate and the politicization of absolutely everything.
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In case you missed it, click here to watch Stephen Colbert discuss Gamergate with Anita Sarkeesian.
Gamergate Supporters Partied at a Strip Club This Weekend:
How 8Chan celebrated its first birthday.
This is a weird article. GamerGate goes to strip club, brings laptops, ignores strippers, talks about dicks, complains about SJWs, and parties in Brooklyn. What?
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I’ve been using Twitter for eight years, but I’ve never seen behavior quite like this. This swarming behavior is so prevalent, it got a new nickname — “sea lioning,” inspired by David Malki’s Wondermark comic.
I wanted to understand #Gamergate, how its proponents and critics behaved and the composition of both audiences.
So I wrote a little Python script with the Twython wrapper for the Twitter streaming API, and started capturing every single tweet that mentioned the #Gamergate and #NotYourShield hashtags.
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