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Summary:

A widely recognized indie developer and leading advocate against online abuse traces the story of her experiences at the center of the Gamergate controversy while outlining recommendations for combating online harassment.

Table of Contents:

• Crash
• Signing on
• An eternal flame in a Taco Bell dumpster
• Witches and inquisitors
• Cracks in my armor
• All my exes live in .txts
• Override
• Net worked
• Law and order SJW
• Actually, it really is about ethics. Sometimes.
• I was a teenaged shitlord
• Digital hygiene and you!
• Miss Manners' guide to being a better internet citizen, as told by some rude nerd
• Okay, but seriously, please tell me exactly what I can do to help if someone I know is being screamed at by anime nazis
• August isn't the end.

Author/Creator:

Quinn, Zoë, 1987- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Crash override: how Gamergate (nearly) destroyed my life, and how we can win the fight against online hate [by Quinn, Z.]

Subjects:

Quinn, Zoë, 1987-

Women video game designers

Video gamers

Video games — Psychological aspects

Cyberbullying

Online hate speech

Internet — Moral and ethical aspects

Video games

Internet

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-242).

Physical Description:

vii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Call Numbers:

GV1469.34.A97 Q56 2017

ISBNs:

9781610398084 (hardcover)
1610398084 (hardcover)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017017273

OCLC Numbers:

981956824