[Air-L] Is there any published research on "trolling"?

Nancy Baym baym at microsoft.com
Wed Jul 25 08:35:37 PDT 2012


Susan Herring and her colleagues have published this paper on trolling in
feminist forums:

http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~fulk/620overview_files/Herring.pdf





On 7/25/12 11:33 AM, "Alexander Furnas" <zfurnas at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi Tom,
>It is on the old side (talks about trolling in UseNet etc.), but I think
>Judith Donath's "Identity Deception in the Virtual World" from Kollock
>and Smith (eds.) Communities in Cyberspace is really really excellent.
>It talks about how trolling is a form of identity signaling/identity
>deception with specific community level ramifications and goals. It is
>absolutely worth a read   and quite highly cited (~910 cites).
>In fact, I imagine perusing the google scholar list of articles that cite
>it would be of help to you as well.
>Here is an html version of the paper:
>http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/judith/Identity/IdentityDeception.html
>
>Best,
>Zander
>On Jul 25, 2012, at 2:11 PM, matt g wrote:
>
>> Hi Tom,
>> 
>> You might check out the following pieces from Gabriella Coleman:
>> 
>> "Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls and the Politics of Transgression and
>> Spectacle." In _The Social Media Reader_, ed. Michael Mandiberg. New
>>York:
>> NYU Press, 2012.
>> 
>> "Hacker and Troller as Trickster."
>>http://gabriellacoleman.org/blog/?p=1902
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Matt
>> --
>> Matthew K. Gold, Ph.D.
>> http://mkgold.net | @mkgold
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Tom Williamson
>><tom at skepticcanary.com>wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> 
>>> I am new to Internet research, and I was wondering if anyone had
>>>published
>>> anything on "trolling"? Trolling is a big problem in the blogosphere,
>>>and I
>>> am interested in ways to combat it.
>>> 
>>> I come from a bioinformatics background, and I have devised an
>>>experiment,
>>> based on randomized double-blind controlled trials, to test the various
>>> ways to combat trolling. Would anyone be interested in such a trial?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Tom
>>> 
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