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'''''The Internet of Garbage''''' is a 2015 ] book by journalist and lawyer ].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/2016/09/inside-googles-internet-justice-league-ai-powered-war-trolls/|title=Inside Google's Internet Justice League and Its AI-Powered War on Trolls|last=Greenberg|first=Andy|author-link=Andy Greenberg|date=2016-09-19|work=]|access-date=2018-08-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/sarah-jeong/|title=Sarah Jeong|work=Forbes|access-date=2018-08-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wweek.com/news/2019/04/03/sarah-jeong-is-watching-the-web-from-portland-she-sees-a-pile-of-garbage/ |title=Sarah Jeong is Watching the Web from Portland. She Sees a Pile of Garbage |work=] |date=2019-04-03 |access-date=2019-11-06 |first=Katie |last=Shepherd}}</ref> It discusses online harassment as a threat to the useful functions of the internet and argues for new approaches to managing the issue. The book was reissued in 2018 with a new preface by Jeong.
⚫ Written after the concentrated harassment campaigns perpetrated against ] in 2013 and multiple other women in the ] in 2014, the book deals with issues of ], and especially gender- and race-related harassment.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Jeong|title=''The Internet of Garbage''|website=Berkman Klein Center|language=en|access-date=2018-08-06}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.themarysue.com/sarah-jeong-the-internet-of-garbage/|title=Sarah Jeong’s ''The Internet of Garbage'' Takes Cyber Crime Seriously|last=Myers|first=Maddie|date=July 23, 2015|website=The Mary Sue|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-08-06}}</ref> The book also touches on the issues of ],<ref name=":0" /> content moderation and other strategies for managing interactions in online communities.<ref name=":1">{{cite news|url=https://gizmodo.com/fantastic-science-and-tech-books-that-will-reboot-your-1725514076|title=Fantastic Science and Tech Books that Will Reboot Your Brain for Fall|last1=Stone|first1=Maddie|date=September 1, 2015|work=Gizmodo|accessdate=3 August 2018}}</ref> Other subjects covered include free speech, behavior vs. content, ], and ].<ref>{{cite web |author1=Forbes |authorlink1=Forbes |title=''The Internet of Garbage'' |url=http://forbes.tumblr.com/post/124092445151/in-our-new-ebook-the-internet-of-garbage-by-tech |website=] |accessdate=August 6, 2018 |date=2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/spam-whats-yours-is-mine-book-reviews-the-loss-of-internet-innocence/|title=Spam & What's Yours Is Mine, book reviews: The loss of internet innocence|last=Grossman|first=Wendy M|date=2015-12-03|work=]|access-date=2018-08-06|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Vasquez|first=Tina|date=Winter 2016|title=The Internet of Garbage (Sarah Jeong)|url=|journal=]|volume=69|pages=|via=}}</ref>


== Publication history ==
''The Internet of Garbage'' was favorably received in the technology press.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/3048680/today-in-tabs-copyright-law-was-not-created-to-protect-people-from-fatwas|title=Today In Tabs: Copyright Law Was Not Created To Protect People From Fatwas|date=2015-07-15|work=Fast Company|access-date=2018-08-06|language=en-US}}</ref> Writing for ], Mike Masnick reviewed the book as "nuanced and well worth reading".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150820/10295032016/techdirt-reading-list-internet-garbage.shtml|title=Techdirt Reading List: ''The Internet Of Garbage''|last=Masnick|first=Mike|date=August 20, 2015|work=Techdirt.|access-date=2018-08-06}}</ref>
In 2015, '']'' published ''The Internet of Garbage'' in 2015 as part of their "''Forbes'' Signature Series" of ]s.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://the-toast.net/2015/07/23/an-interview-with-sarah-jeong/|title=An Interview with Sarah Jeong, Author of 'The Internet of Garbage'|last=Chung|first=Nicole|author-link=Nicole Chung|date=2015-07-23|work=The Toast|access-date=2018-08-28|language=en-US}}</ref> In 2018, '']'' reissued a "1.5" version of the book with a new preface by Jeong after she joined the editorial board of '']''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/sarah-jeong-the-internet-of-garbage-reissue-the-verge.html|title=Apropos of Nothing, Sarah Jeong's Book About Harassment Is Getting Reissued|last=Arnold|first=Amanda|access-date=2018-08-28|magazine=]|language=en}}</ref>

== Content ==
The thesis of the book is that most of the internet has always been garbage, which has always threatened to make the internet useless. ] is one such form of garbage, and it has been addressed, imperfectly but manageably, through the use of technology and human curation. ], especially of women and people of color, has become the newest kind of garbage, and new ways of thinking, new law, and new technologies are needed to manage it.<ref name=Jacobs/><ref name=ars/>

⚫ Written after the concentrated harassment campaigns perpetrated against ] in 2013 and multiple other women in the ] in 2014, the book deals with issues of ], and especially gender- and race-related harassment, with an emphasis on the physical danger caused by ].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://splinternews.com/erasing-yourself-from-the-internet-is-really-really-ha-1793849640|title=Erasing yourself from the Internet is really, really hard|last=Peterson|first=Latoya|date=2015-07-31|work=]|access-date=2018-08-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis|last=van der Nagel |first=Emily |type=PhD |date=2017 |publisher=] |url=https://researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/file/25cfcac7-82ea-4d9e-8681-d9965e6247d1/1/emily_van_der_nagel_thesis.pdf |title=Social Media Pseudonymity: Affordances, Practices, Disruptions}}</ref><ref name="poland">{{Cite book|title=Haters: Harassment, Abuse, and Violence Online|last=Poland|first=Bailey|publisher=]|year=2016|isbn=9781612348728}}</ref>{{rp|21}} The book describes how harassment makes the Internet smaller, and less free for its targets, and seeks to broaden the frontier of ] for all Internet users.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Croeser|first=Sky|date=October 2016|title=Thinking Beyond 'Free Speech' in Responding to Online Harassment|url=https://adanewmedia.org/2016/10/issue10-croeser/|journal=]|doi=10.7264/N35Q4TC4|issn=2325-0496}}</ref><ref name=techdirt/><ref name=":1">{{cite news|url=https://gizmodo.com/fantastic-science-and-tech-books-that-will-reboot-your-1725514076|title=Fantastic Science and Tech Books that Will Reboot Your Brain for Fall|last1=Stone|first1=Maddie|date=September 1, 2015|work=]|access-date=3 August 2018}}</ref> It also discusses the effects of online visibility on social reputation,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/18/the-social-web-and-the-digital-panopticon/|title=The Social Web And The Digital Panopticon|last=Chu|first=Arthur|date=2015-10-18|work=]|access-date=2018-08-06|author-link=Arthur Chu}}</ref> and spam.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/spam-whats-yours-is-mine-book-reviews-the-loss-of-internet-innocence/|title=Spam & What's Yours Is Mine, book reviews: The loss of internet innocence|last=Grossman|first=Wendy M|date=2015-12-03|work=]|access-date=2018-08-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Vasquez|first=Tina|date=Winter 2016|title=The Internet of Garbage (Sarah Jeong)|journal=]|volume=69}}</ref>

Writing from a legal and policy perspective, Jeong describes how the regulations applied to the Internet, such as the ] and the ], have been based in ] law and are focused on taking down problematic content after it has been posted, and were designed to protect corporate interests. She describes how this has made user-generated ] much more viable than it could otherwise have been, but on the other hand, it has left platforms without a framework or legal motivation to address hate speech, harassment, and propaganda.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Smith|first=Shelagh|date=2018|title=Book Review: Haters: Harassment, Abuse and Violence Online|url=http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol19/iss2/18/|journal=International Journal of Women's Studies|volume=19|pages=261&ndash;263}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Hwang |first=Tim |title=Digital Disinformation: A Primer |publisher=] |year=2017 |url=http://www.kas.de/wf/doc/kas_50251-1522-2-30.pdf?171005213027}}</ref> The book suggests other approaches to dealing with harassment, more akin to the way that spam is filtered.<ref name=poland/>{{rp|202}}<ref name=ars>{{Cite news|url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/what-if-we-treated-online-harassment-the-same-way-we-treat-spam/|title=What if we treated online harassment the same way we treat spam?|work=]|access-date=2018-08-06}}</ref>

== Reception ==
''The Internet of Garbage'' was favorably received in the technology press<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-online-comments-suck-and-how-to-fix-them-124623194239.html|title=Why Online Comments Suck (and How to Fix Them)|last=Pegoraro|first=Rob|date=2015-07-21|work=]|access-date=2018-08-06}} (Note: The discussion of the book is ]; click "Story continues" at the end to unroll that section.)</ref> and by feminist organizations.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.womensmediacenter.com/speech-project/10-must-read-books-about-online-harassment-and-free-speech|title=10 Must-Read Books About Online Harassment and Free Speech|last=Chemaly|first=Soraya|date=2016-02-10|work=]|access-date=2018-08-06}}<br/>{{Cite news|url=https://www.gadgette.com/2015/10/21/4-must-read-books-about-sexism-on-the-internet/|title=4 must-read books about sexism on the internet|last=Devaney|first=Beulah|date=2015-10-21|work=Gadgette|access-date=2018-08-06}}</ref> Writing for ], Mike Masnick reviewed the book as "nuanced and well worth reading".<ref name=techdirt>{{Cite news|url=https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150820/10295032016/techdirt-reading-list-internet-garbage.shtml|title=Techdirt Reading List: ''The Internet Of Garbage''|last=Masnick|first=Mike|date=August 20, 2015|work=]|access-date=2018-08-06}}</ref> Author and professor ] called it "very well done, and rather sobering".<ref name=Jacobs>{{Cite web|url=http://text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com/2015/07/brief-book-reviews-internet-of-garbage.html|title=brief book reviews: <em>The Internet of Garbage</em>|last=Jacobs|first=Alan|author-link=Alan Jacobs (academic)|date=2015-07-20|website=]|access-date=2018-08-06}}</ref> '']'' called the 2018 reissue "more valuable than ever".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fortune.com/2018/08/29/data-sheet-didi-chuxing-uber-murder/ |title=Food for Thought |website=] |date=2018-08-29 |access-date=2018-08-29}}</ref>


== References == == References ==
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== External links == == External links ==
;Excerpts
⚫ * from ''The Internet of Garbage'' on ] at '']''
*Jeong, Sarah. . '']''. July 15, 2015 (partially excerpted from ''The Internet of Garbage'')
* with Jeong on ''The Internet of Garbage'' with ], June 23, 2016
⚫ * {{Cite news|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/3048680/today-in-tabs-copyright-law-was-not-created-to-protect-people-from-fatwas|title=Today In Tabs: Copyright Law Was Not Created To Protect People From Fatwas (Chapter from ''Internet of Garbage'')|date=July 15, 2015|work=]}}
*Jeong, Sarah. '']''. August 28, 2018 (excerpted from ''The Internet of Garbage'')

;Talks and interviews
* {{Cite web|url=http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/10/Jeong|title=Videoed talk on ''The Internet of Garbage''|website=]|date=October 27, 2015}}
* with Jeong on ''The Internet of Garbage'' at '']'', July 23, 2015 * with Jeong on ''The Internet of Garbage'' at '']'', July 23, 2015



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Book by Sarah Jeong
The Internet of Garbage
AuthorSarah Jeong
GenreNon-fiction
Published2015
PublisherForbes
The Verge (2018 reissue)
Media typeDigital (e-book)
ISBN978-0-692-18121-8

The Internet of Garbage is a 2015 non-fiction book by journalist and lawyer Sarah Jeong. It discusses online harassment as a threat to the useful functions of the internet and argues for new approaches to managing the issue. The book was reissued in 2018 with a new preface by Jeong.

Publication history

In 2015, Forbes published The Internet of Garbage in 2015 as part of their "Forbes Signature Series" of e-books. In 2018, The Verge reissued a "1.5" version of the book with a new preface by Jeong after she joined the editorial board of The New York Times.

Content

The thesis of the book is that most of the internet has always been garbage, which has always threatened to make the internet useless. Spam is one such form of garbage, and it has been addressed, imperfectly but manageably, through the use of technology and human curation. Online harassment, especially of women and people of color, has become the newest kind of garbage, and new ways of thinking, new law, and new technologies are needed to manage it.

Written after the concentrated harassment campaigns perpetrated against Caroline Criado Perez in 2013 and multiple other women in the Gamergate controversy in 2014, the book deals with issues of online harassment, and especially gender- and race-related harassment, with an emphasis on the physical danger caused by doxing. The book describes how harassment makes the Internet smaller, and less free for its targets, and seeks to broaden the frontier of free speech for all Internet users. It also discusses the effects of online visibility on social reputation, and spam.

Writing from a legal and policy perspective, Jeong describes how the regulations applied to the Internet, such as the DMCA and the Communications Decency Act, have been based in copyright law and are focused on taking down problematic content after it has been posted, and were designed to protect corporate interests. She describes how this has made user-generated social media much more viable than it could otherwise have been, but on the other hand, it has left platforms without a framework or legal motivation to address hate speech, harassment, and propaganda. The book suggests other approaches to dealing with harassment, more akin to the way that spam is filtered.

Reception

The Internet of Garbage was favorably received in the technology press and by feminist organizations. Writing for Techdirt, Mike Masnick reviewed the book as "nuanced and well worth reading". Author and professor Alan Jacobs called it "very well done, and rather sobering". Fortune called the 2018 reissue "more valuable than ever".

References

  1. "Forbes eBook Library". Forbes. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
  2. Greenberg, Andy (2016-09-19). "Inside Google's Internet Justice League and Its AI-Powered War on Trolls". WIRED. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  3. "Sarah Jeong". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  4. Shepherd, Katie (2019-04-03). "Sarah Jeong is Watching the Web from Portland. She Sees a Pile of Garbage". Willamette Week. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  5. Chung, Nicole (2015-07-23). "An Interview with Sarah Jeong, Author of 'The Internet of Garbage'". The Toast. Retrieved 2018-08-28.
  6. Arnold, Amanda. "Apropos of Nothing, Sarah Jeong's Book About Harassment Is Getting Reissued". New York. Retrieved 2018-08-28.
  7. ^ Jacobs, Alan (2015-07-20). "brief book reviews: The Internet of Garbage". The New Atlantis. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  8. ^ "What if we treated online harassment the same way we treat spam?". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  9. Peterson, Latoya (2015-07-31). "Erasing yourself from the Internet is really, really hard". Splinter. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  10. van der Nagel, Emily (2017). Social Media Pseudonymity: Affordances, Practices, Disruptions (PDF) (PhD). Swinburne University of Technology.
  11. ^ Poland, Bailey (2016). Haters: Harassment, Abuse, and Violence Online. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9781612348728.
  12. Croeser, Sky (October 2016). "Thinking Beyond 'Free Speech' in Responding to Online Harassment". Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology. doi:10.7264/N35Q4TC4. ISSN 2325-0496.
  13. ^ Masnick, Mike (August 20, 2015). "Techdirt Reading List: The Internet Of Garbage". Techdirt. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  14. ^ Stone, Maddie (September 1, 2015). "Fantastic Science and Tech Books that Will Reboot Your Brain for Fall". Gizmodo. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  15. Chu, Arthur (2015-10-18). "The Social Web And The Digital Panopticon". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  16. Grossman, Wendy M (2015-12-03). "Spam & What's Yours Is Mine, book reviews: The loss of internet innocence". ZDNet. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  17. Vasquez, Tina (Winter 2016). "The Internet of Garbage (Sarah Jeong)". Bitch. 69.
  18. Smith, Shelagh (2018). "Book Review: Haters: Harassment, Abuse and Violence Online". International Journal of Women's Studies. 19: 261–263.
  19. Hwang, Tim (2017). Digital Disinformation: A Primer (PDF). Atlantic Council.
  20. Pegoraro, Rob (2015-07-21). "Why Online Comments Suck (and How to Fix Them)". Yahoo! Finance. Retrieved 2018-08-06. (Note: The discussion of the book is below the fold; click "Story continues" at the end to unroll that section.)
  21. Chemaly, Soraya (2016-02-10). "10 Must-Read Books About Online Harassment and Free Speech". Women's Media Center. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
    Devaney, Beulah (2015-10-21). "4 must-read books about sexism on the internet". Gadgette. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  22. "Food for Thought". Fortune. 2018-08-29. Retrieved 2018-08-29.

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