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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Trolling"”.
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Trolling Aesthetics: The Lulz as Creative Practice
… of the “digital condition” of online mediation. “Trolling Aesthetics: the LULZ as Creative Practice” charts how the LULZ began as an aesthetic sense and sensibility on the notorious message board 4chan. Akin to most online content, it quickly morphed into a multitude of new forms, including, for …
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Strategies and Behaviors of Cyber Deviance and Internet Trolling
… examines the techniques and behaviors of trolling. Trolling was found to mainly be a response mechanism that consisted of heavy mockery and improvisation. This study indicates that trolls successfully disrupt and reroute conversations using a variety of mechanisms and techniques. General …
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A study of the emergence, impacts, and responses to trolling in the Australian news media
This study analyses the impact of trolling on journalists in the Australian news media between 2015 and 2021, mapping its emergence and the responses of a variety of stakeholders. By 2015, trolling had cemented itself as a complex social issue prevalent in media discourse and has been the subject …
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Understanding Online Trolling Exposure's Impact on Purchase Intention: The Case of the Xbox Tax
… this dissertation examines the impact of Online Trolling Exposure (OTE) – exposure to intentionally malicious communication that aim to disrupt or aggravate and leverage the overarching elements involved in toxicity, trolling, and incivility – on consumer purchase intentions and how gamer …
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“Wtf bitch jus swallow my kids and be on your way”: a mixed methods approach to understanding types of trolling in interaction
Trolling has been used as an umbrella term by the media to describe all manner of unwanted types of online behaviour. There have been attempts in academia to define and categorise trolling behaviour, but to date there is no single, agreed definition. The current programme of research used …
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"You're my bitch": women's experiences of gender-based cyber- harassment on the internet in South Africa, flaming and trolling
… on two forms of cyber-harassment: flaming and trolling. It further discusses how women change their online and offline behaviours due to their experiences and what they recommend to other women and social networking sites to manage and combat it. Using individual interviews and following a …
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Novel weapons: the invasion of fake news and the evolution of political news ecosystems
… develop new terminology to discuss large-scale trolling tactics used to disrupt political news ecosystems. To develop the novel weapons framework for this study, I first identify and then examine three aspects of social media that are reappropriated to transform it into a novel weapon: hashtags, …
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(Un)disciplined Performativity: Anonymity, Identity, and Governmentality on Yik Yak
… controversies surrounding the proliferation of trolling, bullying, and gendered and racialized violence. This has led to a renewed scholarly attention to forms of anonymity and pseudonymity deployed in cyber-spaces that allow users to post content without attachment to their identity. This …
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Rhetoric and Ethics of Free Speech Discourse on Gab
… examine key exigencies of political correctness, trolling, Constitutional fundamentalism, and the candidacy and presidency of Donald Trump; danah boyd’s ethnographic technique of “deep hanging out” to select representative textual samples; and Dana Cloud’s theory of “frame-checking” to critique …
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From whaling days to cannery row : a survey of some aspects of the fishing industry at Monterey and vicinity from 1854 to 1920
… one of their most effective pursuits. Salmon trolling was another fishing field in which the Japanese proved their worth; after 1916, however, salmon began a slow but steady decline. Consequently, the Japanese turned to albacore trolling in Southern California waters.<sup>1</sup><p>The …
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Hate Speech, Habitus, and Identity Signaling on 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Board
… movement that is known for engaging in trolling, creating memes, and generating conspiracy theories. Past research has focused on the amounts of hate speech and characterizing content on the website. However, past studies have not looked at the experience of using the website through the …
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A pscyhometric investigation of the comprehensive assessment of sadistic tendencies (cast): Evidence from factor analysis and item response theory
… cruel behaviors (bullying, aggression, internet trolling). However, empirical validations of the most popular sadism measure are needed. To address this, we administered the comprehensive assessment of sadistic tendencies (CAST; Buckels & Paulhus, 2014) to 432 undergraduates to investigate the …
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Precarious Positions: Toward a Theory and Analysis of Rhetorical Vulnerability
… Baptist Church (WBC), which I describe as “trolling rhetoric” designed to provoke responses rather than persuade audiences. In my third chapter, I examine how opponents of the WBC attempt to manage their rhetorical vulnerability through legal appeals to decorum. Finally, in my fourth …
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Design of a hybrid energy-generation system for autonomous kayaks
… diesel to the electric power delivered to the trolling motor. Each of the various components was sized accordingly for this application. The vessel will require 52 L of diesel fuel for operations lasting 30 days. The battery pack will have a useful capacity of 808 Wh based on the charging …
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An Unsteady State Tracer Dilution Method for Characterizing Water Contributing Fractures in Crystalline Bedrock Wells
… tracer dye throughout the wellbore by trolling and mechanical mixing; packing off and draining the upper portion of the well; releasing the packer to induce a slug test and fracture flow into the well which dilutes out the dye within the well; monitoring the dilution front movement by …
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Fishes of the genus Lutianus off the East African coast and Part 2: Notes on the biology of the Lutjanids of the East African coast
… "Research", has collected by handlines, multiple trolling lines, gill nets, deep lines and basket traps over the six hundred mile coastline of Kenya, Tanganyika and Zanzibar Protectorate, i.e. from Lat. l o 30" S. to 10° 30" S. This material forms the basis of the present paper. Underwater …
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Computational approaches for democratizing online community governance
… rules are vital to community health (preventing trolling, keeping communities on-topic, etc), community members have little voice in their creation or implementation. Part of this is due to inadequate tooling. Online communities require democratic governance technologies that are able to function …
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Architecture and the record: Negotiating feminism in the Jezebel comments
… commenting system led to an influx in disruptive trolling behaviors, commenters were forced to collectively negotiate the aims of the comment section as they sought to determine the limits of acceptable dissent in the commenting space. Crucially, the commenting architecture shapes discursive …
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Feminist Movements and Barriers to Participation: A sociological study of Ni Una Menos protest tactics and accessibility
… research), in addition to their high risk of trolling, lessened digital participation. This likely affected both actual and perceived participation levels. Accordingly, this research expands understandings of social movements and protest tactics through a bottom-up and critical stance towards …
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