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It’s Supposed to Look Like Shit: The Internet Ugly Aesthetic

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Visual Culture, December 2014
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#1 of 248)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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news
10 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
twitter
50 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
14 Redditors
bluesky
12 Bluesky users
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
185 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
It’s Supposed to Look Like Shit: The Internet Ugly Aesthetic
Published in
Journal of Visual Culture, December 2014
DOI 10.1177/1470412914544516
Authors

Nick Douglas

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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
United Kingdom 2 1%
Australia 2 1%
Finland 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 175 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 32 17%
Student > Bachelor 30 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 14%
Researcher 19 10%
Lecturer 7 4%
Other 27 15%
Unknown 44 24%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 50 27%
Social Sciences 36 19%
Linguistics 9 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 4%
Computer Science 7 4%
Other 27 15%
Unknown 49 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 162. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 August 2026.
All research outputs
#319,580
of 34,603,176 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Visual Culture
#1
of 248 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,920
of 413,645 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Visual Culture
#1
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,603,176 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 248 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 413,645 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 11 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% of its contemporaries.