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

sava saheli singh savasaheli at gmail.com
Wed Jul 25 10:31:16 PDT 2012 

did you read it? =)



On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Thomas Jones <tajone02 at syr.edu> wrote:

>  Sounds a bit abrasive. :-)
>
>
> Thomas Jones
> @othertomjones
> http://about.me/othertomjones
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>  Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jul 25, 2012, at 12:52 PM, "sava saheli singh" <savasaheli at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>   this is absolutely the nicest thing I've read about trolls recently, by
> Erin Kissane:
> How to Kill a Troll: http://incisive.nu/2012/how-to-kill-a-troll/
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Burcu Bakioglu <bbakiogl at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I agree with Thomas over here. Fighting trolling is a losing business, the
>> more you respond, thousand times more they respond. All of these readings
>> mentioned here possibly won't give you any more insight on fighting it.
>> Especially in virtual worlds this is rampant under a slightly different
>> name: griefing, but it is the same deal. i have a long list of reading on
>> the phenomena but didn't want to spam everyone with the reading list. If
>> you are genuinely trying to stop trolling on your blog or anywhere else:
>>
>> -ignore disruptive behavior... these guys are mainly attention whores
>> (their term, not mine). So if you ignore them, they get bored and go
>> away...
>> -turn on any protective settings like moderation, if you are in a virtual
>> world you would have ban capabilities in your sim/region
>> -in the online piece that someone else had mentioned, Judith Donath's
>> piece, there are some useful cues and how these guys act. The piece is a
>> bit outdated but still useful. Donath mentions: They usually pretend to be
>> in on the cause and start asking silly questions, you explain, they
>> pretend
>> not to understand, you explain more etc... In Second Life for instance,
>> the
>> blogger/character Prokovy Nova pretends to fight griefers and defend free
>> speech and stuff, and at the same time, trolls and antagonizes bunch of
>> blogs from Henry Jenkin's blog to Techcruch to Terra Nova with epic long
>> blog comments... from which s/he is banned... I think she is banned from
>> 10
>> blogs at least.
>> -or they attack you somehow, you defend, they attack more etc...
>> -Also in Cole Stryker's Epic Win for Anonymous, there is a useful troll
>> category list earlier in the book... the book is not exclusively about
>> trolling, but it does touch upon it...
>>
>> It takes various shapes and forms. But the truism is the same: don't feed
>> the troll. Meaning ignore/delete/block... fighting is not an option.
>>
>> My two cents...
>>
>> BsB
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Thomas Jones <tajone02 at syr.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > Lost the original message, but I would be apprehensive about being able
>> to
>> > fight or combat trolling, psychologically or sociotechnically. Online
>> > community governance is a slippery slope sometimes.
>> >
>> > Though, I would be interested in reading Griefer Wars when published.
>> >
>> > Thomas Jones
>> > @othertomjones
>> > http://about.me/othertomjones
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPhone
>> >
>> > On Jul 25, 2012, at 11:38 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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>>  --
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Burcu S. Bakioglu, Ph.D.
>> Postdoctoral Fellow in New Media
>> Lawrence University
>>
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