We provide a dataset containing 58,841 opening posts and 13,697,738 replies to those, divided over 329 thematically distinct ‘general thread’ collections.
4CHAN POL INTO THE TRASH IT GOES ARCHIVE
By identifying them it is possible to subset the board’s archive into multiple distinct datasets comprising discussions about a particular topic, such as Donald Trump, the Syria war, or British politics. This paper focuses specifically on ‘generals’ - recurring threads with a specific thematic focus identified by a particular vernacular phrase or tag. While previous research has often studied this space as a unified whole, it is relevant to more specifically demarcate different publics within 4chan’s /pol/ board, apart from studying it as an ‘amorphous blob’. And Dead Horse Bay is now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area.Over the second half of the 2010s, the /pol/ (‘politically incorrect’) forum on the 4chan image board has emerged as a space within which various extreme political ideologies are discussed and cultivated, occasionally informing off-site acts of political extremism. The Bronx-Pelham landfill is now part of Pelham Bay Park. Fresh Kills, the Staten Island landfill that closed down in 2001, is scheduled to open as a massive park in 2036. In fact, converting landfills into park land is the new normal. Other landfills popped up in the 1950s and 1960s, like the Fountain Avenue and the Pennsylvania Avenue landfills, just east of Canarsie.Īfter the Fountain and Pennsylvania Avenue landfills closed, the New York Times reported that the Department of Environmental Protection invested $200 million to cover them with 33,000 trees and shrubs. Much of the Jamaica Bay coastline was filled in from the 1920s through the 1950s. Today, jagged wooden pillars are all that remains of a dock where boats sailed up to unload their trash cargo. That was the case with Jamaica Bay, which lines the southeast coast of Brooklyn, from Marine Park to East New York, and the southern part of Queens, curving around from Howard Beach to JFK airport, and protected from the Atlantic Ocean by the Rockaways. Dead Horse Bay is a small cove on the western edge of the bay in Brooklyn, and was originally a dumping ground for early 20 th century New York City garbage-a pre-plastic era, hence all the glass. “And then, eventually, we put topsoil on top of it and it became real estate.” “We used to bury garbage everywhere,” says Professor Steven Cohen, the Executive Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Though the trash strewn along Dead Horse Bay make its former life as a landfill more obvious, a filled-in coast is the rule rather than the exception, and New York City has filled in its edges with more than one hundred years of garbage and dredged land.
Floyd Bennett Field on the southern tip of the Brooklyn coast is landfill. So is JFK airport in Queens on the northeast side of Jamaica Bay, and Battery Park in lower Manhattan, where the Hudson meets the East River.
The coastline of New York City today is vastly different from what Dutch settlers saw hundreds of years ago. And Dead Horse Bay is not the only one like that. Shards of glass, large and small, cover Dead Horse Bay, with the occasional shoe, abandoned boat, and a tire or two. But this isn’t trash that has washed up on the shore. On sunny days, the beach glitters-literally.
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