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

[Burcu Bakioglu]

I am also co-authoring a book with Peter Ludlow called Griefer Wars
that focuses on trolling and griefing in online and virtual spaces.
But not published yet...

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On Jul 25, 2012, at 10:33 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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