*This book is written in Korean. Below is the introduction of the book translated into English. The original title of the book is ‘우리 모두 댓글 폭력의 공범이다’.
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[Synopsis]
Dissecting the face of hate: the comment section
Twenty years on from being an online public forum, the comment section has become the final frontier of hate culture and is rife with red flags in community and media discourse. Digging into this Pandora's box of uncomfortable truths in our post-truth era, the author asks: Are abusers really monsters?
The author, who has been a victim of comment attacks herself, shows us the current state of hate-filled comment threads in Korea, explains how they are generated and spread, how they become public opinion, and how they can be rebuilt, all through the eyes of a working journalist. This is the first book in Korea to attempt a social analysis of comment culture and the phenomenon of flaming/malicious online comments.
[Contents]
Chapter 1. Online commenting culture
A commenting forum gone bad
The reality and meaning of toxic comments