An interesting new book connects two parts of the internet: threatening or obnoxious emails, and the social Web of everyday life. It's a powerful conjunction, stretching across domains of identity, privacy, copyright, gender, ethics...
Tinkebell (Katinka Simonse - van Bruggen)... collected all her hate mail from 2004-2008 and with her colleague Coralie Vogelaar researched what information about the hate mailers was publicly available through simple searches on the internet. Starting with the e-mail addresses they searched out Facebook profiles, blog URLs, photos etc. To find out if those people are "as scary as their e-mails, or just like" any of us. From all that material a book has been created, released this week, which shows the piece of hate mail and then a picture and other info about the mailer.
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