JuicyCampus
JuicyCampus.com is a Web 2.0 website focusing on gossip and rants. The site describes itself as an enabler of "online anonymous free speech on college campuses." Through various services such as IP cloaking / offering of anonymous IP servers, it allows users to post messages and comments without possibility of identification. Readers can vote on which posts they find "juciest," or most provocative.
Controversy
On December 8, 2007 from a computer at Loyola Marymount University, a student posted a threat to shoot random students on the campus' "Alumni Mall". The quote reads, "I am going to shoot and kill as many people as I can until which time I am incapacitated or killed by the police." The LAPD apprehended the suspect. The message was originally posted on the website 4chan.[1][2]
Juicycampus has received media attention for its damaging potential. Much of its content is related to Fraternities and sororities[3]. CNN released an article documenting the anonymous rumors on the website and the panic felt by some students.[4]
The creator of Juicy Campus, identified in a The Chronicle of Higher Education article as a Duke University alum named Matt Ivester,[5] hides his identity and other information.[6] Laurence Moneta, the vice president for student affairs at Duke University said that when asked Ivester to moderate the website Ivester refused and indicated that he enjoyed the publicity.[5] The Chronicle of Higher Education said that the site "the site revels in the publicity it gets" and that the website keeps a list of websites, including websites that are critical of JuicyCampus in a blog.[5]
In January 2008 the undergraduate student government at Pepperdine University passed a resolution asking for a block on the site. The administration did not enact the block. The administration complained to Google; Daniel Rubin, a Google spokesman, said that Google removed JuicyCampus from its advertising network due to "excessive profanity." As of 2008 JuicyCampus is using another advertising network.[5]
References
- ^ Nader Alsheikh (December 8, 2007). "Shooting threat suspect aprehended". Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- ^ Associated Press (December 9, 2007). "Student arrested after threats to attack campus". Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- ^ "Web site features campus gossip".
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ "College Web site posts sex gossip, hate, rumor," CNN
- ^ a b c d "How to Combat a Campus Gossip Web Site (and Why You Shouldn't)." The Chronicle of Higher Education.
- ^ "Online campus gossips won't show their faces." CNN.
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