July 12, 2010
Catherine White on the Noisy Idiot Dilemma
Jerry Brito
Former Senior Research FellowCatherine White
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To speak with a scholar or learn more on this topic, visit our contact page.Catherine White, graduate student at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, where she is researching productive participatory discussion, talks about her thesis on the Noisy Idiot Dilemma. White explains the dilemma — how to foster productive online conversation when certain speakers exhibit noisy, unproductive, or unhelpful behavior — and discusses her research on various online forums, weblog comments, effects of humor, anonymity, and empathy online, and characteristics of elastic, oily conversation.
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