FCJ-164 ‘Don’t be Rude on the Road’: Cycle Blogging, Trolling and Lifestyle
This article examines hostile noise on the UK Guardian’s Bike Blog. Like the Internet, the bicycle has been framed as a redemptive technology at the heart of new forms of urbanity and citizenship. The article examines these struggles, concentrating on how accusations of trolling police the boundarie...
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| description | This article examines hostile noise on the UK Guardian’s Bike Blog. Like the Internet, the bicycle has been framed as a redemptive technology at the heart of new forms of urbanity and citizenship. The article examines these struggles, concentrating on how accusations of trolling police the boundaries between cycling as a sphere of autonomous play and a more ‘ethical’ disposition that links cycling to environmental and social responsibility. It argues that a sense of community is established through the embattled relationship with a ‘petrolhead’ mode of online writing which asserts the pleasures of unrestrained lifestyle-as-fun and contests the claims to good citizenship made by pro-cycle bloggers. The article asks whether cycle blogging is constituted by its games of taste and its defensive response to trolling, or if conjoined strategies of netiquette and on-road etiquette framed in terms of ‘responsibility’, offer a route to legitimacy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c9aec6474b754f46923f160387c353f32022-12-22T02:53:29ZengOpen Humanities PressFibreculture Journal1449-14431449-14432013-12-0122233256FCJ-164 ‘Don’t be Rude on the Road’: Cycle Blogging, Trolling and LifestyleSteve Jones0Nottingham Trent UniversityThis article examines hostile noise on the UK Guardian’s Bike Blog. Like the Internet, the bicycle has been framed as a redemptive technology at the heart of new forms of urbanity and citizenship. The article examines these struggles, concentrating on how accusations of trolling police the boundaries between cycling as a sphere of autonomous play and a more ‘ethical’ disposition that links cycling to environmental and social responsibility. It argues that a sense of community is established through the embattled relationship with a ‘petrolhead’ mode of online writing which asserts the pleasures of unrestrained lifestyle-as-fun and contests the claims to good citizenship made by pro-cycle bloggers. The article asks whether cycle blogging is constituted by its games of taste and its defensive response to trolling, or if conjoined strategies of netiquette and on-road etiquette framed in terms of ‘responsibility’, offer a route to legitimacy.http://twentytwo.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-164-dont-be-rude-on-the-road-cycle-blogging-trolling-and-lifestyle/agonismantagonismbloggingBourdieuBritish Presscivilitycommunitycyclingethicsincivilitylifestyletrolling |
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| title | FCJ-164 ‘Don’t be Rude on the Road’: Cycle Blogging, Trolling and Lifestyle |
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| title_short | FCJ-164 ‘Don’t be Rude on the Road’: Cycle Blogging, Trolling and Lifestyle |
| title_sort | fcj 164 don t be rude on the road cycle blogging trolling and lifestyle |
| topic | agonism antagonism blogging Bourdieu British Press civility community cycling ethics incivility lifestyle trolling |
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