{"id":12403,"date":"2025-09-28T16:05:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T20:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=12403"},"modified":"2025-12-14T18:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:58:10","slug":"noted-without-comment-performance-of-meanness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2025\/09\/noted-without-comment-performance-of-meanness\/","title":{"rendered":"Noted without comment: &#8220;performance of meanness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From a story by Fiona Murphy titled <a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2025\/09\/26\/rapturetok-shows-how-tiktok-amplifies-extreme-corners-of-faith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cHow \u2018RaptureTok\u2019 amplified an extreme corner of faith\u201d<\/a> (Religion New Service, 26 Sept. 2025). The story documents how minority religious views are often mocked and belittled on TikTok&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-246c573ed7565b1c01901da7378e1271\">\u201cHeidi Campbell, director of the&nbsp;Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies&nbsp;at Texas A&amp;M University in College Station, said that since 2016, online discourse has shifted toward what she calls a \u2018performance of meanness.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-704e74b7eba9b0abefd8d75ee1049bd1\">\u201c\u2018The screen has allowed us to broadcast so much more diversity, which can be a positive thing,\u2019 Campbell said. \u2018But instead of bringing us closer together, which a lot of internet prophets and cyber philosophers kind of said in the 1990s, it\u2019s actually brought more division.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a story by Fiona Murphy titled \u201cHow \u2018RaptureTok\u2019 amplified an extreme corner of faith\u201d (Religion New Service, 26 Sept. 2025). The story documents how minority religious views are often mocked and belittled on TikTok&#8230;. \u201cHeidi Campbell, director of the&nbsp;Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies&nbsp;at Texas A&amp;M University in College Station, said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2025\/09\/noted-without-comment-performance-of-meanness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Noted without comment: &#8220;performance of meanness&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,84,40],"tags":[1191],"class_list":["post-12403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-new-media","category-religion-news","tag-commonplace-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12587,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403\/revisions\/12587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}