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Defunct classified advertising website
Backpage was a classified advertising website founded in 2004 by the alternative newspaper chain New Times Inc./New Times Media as a rival to Craigslist. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: BackpageA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: BackPage Online, April 2023Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: No not backpage!!The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Erased: The impact of FOSTA-SESTA and the removal of Backpage on sex workersCited 142 times
- Go sideways: Jim Larkin (publisher)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Michael Lacey (editor)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Alternative form of back page.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Erased: The impact of FOSTA-SESTA and the removal of Backpage on sex workers
Project Backpage: Using Text Messaging to Initiate Outreach Support for Victims of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation
BackPage Online, September 2015
BackPage Online, April 2015
BackPage Online, April 2020
BackPage Online, June 2016
BackPage Online, March 2015
BackPage Online, December 2015
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕No not backpage!! · 2025
The Sound and the Fury: 40 Years of Classic Rock JournalismBarney Hoskyns · 2003
The Sound and the Fury: A Rock's Backpages ReaderBarney Hoskyns · 2003
Into the Void: Ozzy Osbourne and Black SabbathBarney Hoskins · 2004
You DiedKeza MACDONALD, Jason KILLINGSWORTH · 2016
Taking down BackpageMaggy Krell · 2022
Backpage BarbiesTravon Edwards · 2019- 📕Backpage 2Jade Jones · 2016
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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