商品描述
A lively and often hilarious exploration of Reddit--and how it is transforming the advice genre, usurping traditional columnists, and training our future AI advisors. From the
Athenian Mercury of 1691 to "Dear Beatrice Fairfax" in 1898 to present-day subreddits, the history of the advice genre is a vast and varied chronicle. The genre is a public spectacle of personal conundrums aired for entertainment and the practice of folk ethics. In
Dear Reddit, Am I the Asshole?, Joseph Reagle offers a delightful and deeply researched exploration of Reddit's advice subreddits within the long history of the advice genre.
Once constrained by the newspaper's narrow, vertical column, the advice genre now sprawls across the internet, where no such boundaries exist. And while both print and online advice venues support disclosure, suggestion, judgment, and their continued discussion, only online forums can specialize in function and topic.
This book discusses Reddit's unique aspects and contributions to the genre, including historical reversals, such as users hacking Reddit so they could ask questions of one another, as well as its novelty: whereas traditional advice columnists kept their lives private, anonymous commenters online will have faced the same issue as the querist, have professional expertise, or both. Finally, the author speculates about how AI will change the landscape of the advice to come, as Reddit's user-generated content is being used to train the AI advisors of our future.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
一部生動活潑、往往妙趣橫生的作品，深入探討 Reddit 如何改變建議文體、取代傳統專欄作家，並訓練未來的 AI 建議顧問。
從 1691 年的《Athenian Mercury》、1898 年的「Dear Beatrice Fairfax」，一路到今日的 subreddit，建議文體的歷史是一部廣博而多采多姿的編年史。這種文體將個人的困境公開呈現，既供人娛樂，也成為實踐民間倫理的場域。在《Dear Reddit, Am I the Asshole?》一書中，Joseph Reagle 將 Reddit 上的建議類 subreddit，置於建議文體的悠久歷史脈絡中，展開一場令人愉悅且研究深具深度的探索。
過去，建議文體受限於報紙狹窄而垂直的專欄；如今，它已蔓延至不受這類邊界限制的網際網路。無論是紙本或線上的建議平台，都支持揭露、建議、評判，以及對這些內容持續展開的討論；但只有線上論壇能夠在功能與主題上進行專門化。
本書探討 Reddit 在此文體中的獨特面向與貢獻，其中包括一些歷史性的反轉，例如使用者破解 Reddit，讓自己能夠彼此提問；也包括它的新穎之處：傳統的建議專欄作家通常會對自己的生活保持隱私，但線上匿名留言者可能曾經面臨與提問者相同的問題、具備專業知識，或兩者兼具。最後，作者推測 AI 將如何改變未來建議服務的樣貌，因為 Reddit 上由使用者生成的內容，正被用來訓練未來的 AI 建議顧問。
作者簡介
Joseph M. Reagle, Jr. is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. His books include Wikipedia @ 20, Hacking Life, Reading the Comments, and Good Faith Collaboration, all published by the MIT Press. A former resident fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard (in 1998 and 2010), he was also a Research Engineer at MIT's Lab for Computer Science, where he served as an author and working group chair within the IETF and W3C on digital security, privacy, and Internet policy.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Joseph M. Reagle, Jr. 是 Northeastern University 傳播研究系的副教授。他的著作包括由 MIT Press 出版的《Wikipedia @ 20》、《Hacking Life》、《Reading the Comments》以及《Good Faith Collaboration》。他曾於 1998 年及 2010 年擔任 Harvard Berkman Klein Center 的駐院研究員，也是 MIT Computer Science Laboratory 的研究工程師；在該實驗室期間，他曾於 IETF 和 W3C 擔任數位安全、隱私及網際網路政策領域的作者與工作小組主席。
