It's supposed to look like shit: The internet ugly aesthetic

Journal of Visual Culture

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 314-339

  Douglas, Nick ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

4chan; democratization; memetics; New Aesthetic; photo manipulation; Reddit; trollpunk; user generated content

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918819176     PISSN: 14704129     EISSN: 17412994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470412914544516     Document Type: Article

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