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Dines, Gender, Race and Class in Media, 5e
SAGE Publishing, 2018
Web Exercises
Part VIII: Social Media, Virtual Community, and Fandom
When Lindy West Met Her Troll
This exercise works with the earlier chapters in this section.
1. Listen in class to the first 26 min of Episode 545 of This American Life: If You Don’t
Have Anything Nice to Say, SAY IT IN ALL CAPS in which writer and critic Lindy West
discusses confronting her online troll. Contains strong language.
2. Have a discussion with students in which you raise the following questions:
Yelp Reviews as a form of Digital Protest?
1. Read this article in the Independent which describes how Yelp reviewers bashed a fried
chicken restaurant in New Jersey owned by the family of 2016 New York bombing suspect
Ahmad Khan Rahimi.
The Dual Nature of the Dark Web
1. Explain to students about the Dark Web and its modified browser, Tor. More information
can be found at the Tor Project Website.
