This is tremendous from @sarahmanavis on what shitposting is and why it matters that political journalists understand it - otherwise the consequences can be direhttps://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2019/11/what-is-shitposting-and-why-does-it-matter-bbc-brexitcast-laura-kuenssberg-got-it-wrong …
hi! I don't think I do that – I'm saying that to understand places online where radicalisation happens, you have to understand this language. Shitposting is part of that. Surely you agree?
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Of course understanding online jargon is important for the narrow goal of understanding online radicalisation, but shitposting isn't "part of that" in the sense that it is solely in the context of online radicalisation
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All kinds of people use shitposting and more broadly memes (of which shitpost is actually a part / genre) for all kinds of purposes
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