FCJ-164 ‘Don’t be Rude on the Road’: Cycle Blogging, Trolling and Lifestyle

摘要: This article examines hostile noise on the UK Guardian’s Bike Blog. Like Internet, bicycle has been framed as a redemptive technology at heart of new forms urbanity and citizenship. The these struggles, concentrating how accusations trolling police boundaries between cycling sphere autonomous play more ‘ethical’ disposition that links to environmental social responsibility. It argues sense community is established through embattled relationship with ‘petrolhead’ mode online writing which asserts pleasures unrestrained lifestyle-as-fun contests claims good citizenship made by pro-cycle bloggers. asks whether cycle blogging constituted its games taste defensive response trolling, or if conjoined strategies netiquette on-road etiquette in terms ‘responsibility’, offer route legitimacy.