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

[sava saheli singh]

don't feed the trolls.


On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Burcu Bakioglu <bbakiogl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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...
>
> Sent from Merlin
>
>
> 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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