Journal articles: 'Internet Trolling'

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Yildiz, Erkan, and Kevin Smets. "Internet Trolling in ‘Networked’ Authoritarianism." Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 12, no. 3 (December 5, 2019): 348–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01203003.

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Abstract Social media are usually associated with democratic political changes in authoritarian countries. However, authoritarian regimes have also learned to control the use of social media platforms. Among the ways of controlling social media, Internet trolling has emerged as an important part of social media networks and strategies. After the Gezi protests in 2013, Turkey has employed trolls to spread official views and counter government critics on social media, and pro-government users have become much more active. The government’s Twitter network has been built, primarily, on so-called ‘Ak trolls’. These have gained more impact in political circumstances, and with the help of state of emergency rules after the coup attempt on 15 July 2016, they have reached a level in which they influence Turkish social, political and Twitter spheres both directly and indirectly. This paper focuses on the tweets of regime supporters and ‘Ak trolls’ in order to explore the characteristics of posts in July 2016, during the days leading up to the coup attempt and in the post-coup period. Our work contributes to existing knowledge of trolls and the social media networks of authoritarian regimes by providing information on their behavior in times of acute conflict and crisis like the coup attempt.

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Fontalova, Natalia, and Gulnara Turganova. "Socio-Psychological Characteristics of People Involved in Network Trolling." Theoretical and Practical Issues of Journalism 8, no. 1 (January 31, 2019): 179–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.17150/2308-6203.2019.8(1).179-194.

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Nowadays, more and more people are using different Internet resources to communicate with society. In terms of this, an individual can develop different specific forms of not quite traditional and not quite acceptable types of internet communication. This article aims at presenting the results of the research devoted to studying socio-psychological characteristics of people involved in network trolling. Global technical and social changes in the modern world make the subject of the research up-to-date. These changes influence both society as a whole and an individual participating in the process of communication, as well as the internet processes of communication themselves. Ninety-eight respondents have participated in the research. All the respondents were males aged from 20 to 25. Sixty-eight of them were internet trolls, thirty of them were not involved in internet trolling. The empirical research was carried out with the help of the following psychodiagnostic methods: the Sentence Completion Test by Sacks and Levy, H. Eysenck personality temperament test, Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory, the authors’ questionnaire for diagnosing reasons for trolling for each respondent. The article compares the young people involved in internet trolling of the people and young men who have nothing to do with internet trolling. The empirical data presented and analysed allow one to draw a quantitative and qualitative characteristics of both groups’ psychological peculiarities. On the basis of the data received the authors conclude that melancholic personalities are mostly involved in network trolling, the next personality type is the choleric one. The respondents involved in trolling are characterized by such socio-psychological features as passive aggression and a reduced sense of guilt.

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March, Evita, and Jessica Marrington. "A Qualitative Analysis of Internet Trolling." Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 22, no. 3 (March 2019): 192–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2018.0210.

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Raja Zulkifi, Raja Nurafiqah, Noor Sulastry Yurni Ahmad, Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani, and Haslina Muhamad. "Satira Politik: Analisis Internet Trolling di Malaysia (Political Satire: Analysis on the Internet Trolling in Malaysia)." Jurnal Komunikasi, Malaysian Journal of Communication 34, no. 2 (June 30, 2018): 223–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/jkmjc-2018-3402-14.

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Karlsson, Anna M. Connysdotter, and Petri J. Kajonius. "Not only Trolls are Trolling the Internet: A study on dark personality traits, online environment, and commentary styles." International Journal of Personality Psychology 6 (December 23, 2020): 12–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/ijpp.6.37214.

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On the Internet, many commentary styles take place on various forums, and abuse is not uncommon. We investigated the personality traits related to individuals’ behaviors on Internet forum posting. The Dark Short Tetrad (SD4) were used to predict (N = 212) three types of commentary styles: Trolling (malicious posting), Lurking (reading/not posting) and Posting (reading/posting). The results showed that Trolling co-varied with Sadism (r = .38) and Machiavellianism (r = .28). The results also showed that people high on dark traits are Trolling the Internet. Exploratory mediator analyses further revealed that various aspects of anonymity trivially moderate personality traits and behavior (indirect effects β ≈ .10). The overall take-home message is that personality traits, especially dark traits, play a role in how individuals express themselves online. This provides well-needed insight in abusive behaviors in forums on the internet.

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BARNEY, RACHEL. "[Aristotle], On Trolling." Journal of the American Philosophical Association 2, no. 2 (2016): 193–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/apa.2016.9.

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That trolling is a shameful thing, and that no one of sense would accept to be called ‘troll’, all are agreed; but what trolling is, and how many its species are, and whether there is an excellence of the troll, is unclear. And indeed trolling is said in many ways; for some call ‘troll’ anyone who is abusive on the internet, but this is only the disagreeable person, or in newspaper comments the angry old man. And the one who disagrees loudly on the blog on each occasion is a lover of controversy, or an attention-seeker. And none of these is the troll, or perhaps some are of a mixed type; for there is no art in what they do. (Whether it is possible to troll one's own blog is unclear; for the one who poses divisive questions seems only to seek controversy, and to do so openly; and this is not trolling but rather a kind of clickbait.)

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Kurowska, Xymena, and Anatoly Reshetnikov. "Neutrollization: Industrialized trolling as a pro-Kremlin strategy of desecuritization." Security Dialogue 49, no. 5 (August 8, 2018): 345–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010618785102.

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This article considers the significance of trolling for security processes through a contextual analysis of industrialized pro-Kremlin trolling in the Russian blogosphere. The publicity surrounding Russia’s hacking activities in international politics conceals the significance of the domestic trolling culture in Russia and its role in the ‘trolling turn’ in Russia’s foreign policy. We contextually identify the practice of ‘neutrollization’ – a type of localized desecuritization where the regime adopts trolling to prevent being cast as a societal security threat by civil society. Neutrollization relies on counterfeit internet activism, ostensibly originating from the citizenry, that produces political disengagement by breeding radical doubt in a manner that is non-securitizing. Rather than advocating a distinct political agenda, and in contrast to conventional understandings of the operations of propaganda, neutrollization precludes the very possibility of meaning, obviating the need to block the internet in an openly authoritarian manner. It operates by preventing perlocution – that is, the social consequences of the security speech act. This prevention is achieved through the breaking or disrupting of the context in which acts of securitization could possibly materialize, and is made possible by a condition of ‘politics without telos’ that is different from the varieties of depoliticization more familiar in Western societies.

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Bishop, Jonathan. "Dealing with Internet Trolling in Political Online Communities." International Journal of E-Politics 5, no. 4 (October 2014): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijep.2014100101.

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Internet trolling has become a popularly used term to describe the posting of any content on the Internet which is provocative or offensive. This is different from the original meaning online in the 1990s, which referred to the posting of provocative messages for humourous effect. Those systems operators (sysops) who run online communities are finding they are being targeted because of abuse posted on their platforms. Political discussion groups are some of the most prone to trolling, whether consensual or unwanted. Many such websites ara open for anyone to join, meaning when some members post messages they know are offensive but legal, others might find grossly offensive, meaning these messages could be illegal. This paper develops a questionnaire called the This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things Scale (TIWWCHNT-20), which aims to help sysops better plan the development of online communities to take account of different users' capacity to be offended, and for users to self-assess whether they will be suited to an online community. The scale is discussed in relation to different Internet posting techniques where different users will act differently.

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Luchinkina, A. I. "TROLLING IN THE INTERNET SPACE AS A RESULT OF DEVIANT INTERNET SOCIALIZATION." RESEARCH RESULT. PEDAGOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY OF EDUCATION 4, no. 2 (June 30, 2018): 68–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.18413/2313-8971-2018-4-2-0-7.

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Hardin-Sigler, Kristen, Rebecca Deason, Stephanie Dailey, Natalie Ceballos, and Krista Howard. "Under the Digital Bridge: Investigating Trolling Behaviors in Baby Boomers." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1015.

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Abstract Internet trolling, or the intentional disturbance or upsetting of others on social media for personal amusement, has become increasingly prevalent in recent years (Howard et al., 2019). Current research focuses on these destructive social media behaviors in younger populations, therefore this study set out to investigate the gender differences of trolling behaviors in Baby Boomers. Participants (N = 140), ages 54 and older, were recruited from the Amazon Mechanical Turk and were compensated for their participation. Participants completed a survey investigating their likelihood to engage in trolling behaviors, the extent to which they enjoy trolling, and their feelings while trolling. Results indicated that while there were no significant differences between men and women in their need, intensity of use, or addiction to social media, men were significantly more likely to engage in trolling behaviors than women. Men reported posting to upset others (p = .018), as well as commenting to upset others (p = .053), more often than women. Furthermore, when engaging in these behaviors, men reported feeling intelligent (p = .013), confident (p = .024), superior (p = .053), and happy (p = .012), more often than women. However, these results could be indicative of a more sinister issue. Men also reported more often that their reasons for engaging in trolling behaviors were feelings of loneliness (p = .005) and anxiety (p = .010). This indicates that these trolling behaviors may then be a way for men to seek out some form of “social support” in the online community.

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Minki Kim and 이진로. "The Publicness of the Internet and Solutions for Trolling." Journal of Political Communication ll, no. 9 (June 2008): 5–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.35731/kpca.2008..9.001.

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Graham, Elyse. "Boundary maintenance and the origins of trolling." New Media & Society 21, no. 9 (May 30, 2019): 2029–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444819837561.

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This article presents a new social framework for understanding the origins of trolling and its expansion from an obscure practice, limited to a handful of boards on Usenet, to a pervasive component of Internet culture. I argue that trolling originated, in the term of sociologists, as a form of boundary maintenance that served to distinguish communities of self-identified online insiders from others beyond the boundaries of their community and to drive outsiders away from their spaces. This framework can help us to better understand the transformations that trolling has undergone in the decades since its inception, as well as the persistence of misogyny and prejudice throughout the history of the practice.

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Печенегова, Анна Леонидовна. "TROLLING AS A FORM OF SPEECH AGGRESSION IN INTERNET COMMUNICATION (ON THE MATERIAL OF THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY IN THE SOCIAL NETWORK)." Tomsk state pedagogical university bulletin, no. 4(216) (July 6, 2021): 48–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.23951/1609-624x-2021-4-48-56.

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Введение. Рассматривается одна из форм речевой агрессии, представленная в интернет-коммуникации. Троллинг – явление, развивающееся вместе с новыми интернет-технологиями, характерное исключительно для сетевого дискурса и находящее свое воплощение в провокативных репликах. Троллинг является формой проявления речевой агрессии, он обусловлен характером интернет-дискурса. Цель – исследование троллинга как одной из форм речевой агрессии в интернет-коммуникации. Материал и методы. Материалом послужили публикации и комментарии в сообществе российских школьников в социальной сети «ВКонтакте». Основным методом стал дискурсивный анализ. При отборе материала применялся метод сплошной выборки. Результаты и обсуждение. Актуализируется проявление речевой агрессии в сетевой коммуникации российских школьников. Рассмотрены и охарактеризованы техники троллинга, стратегии и тактики, посредством которых реализована данная форма речевой агрессии. Среди наиболее часто используемых школьниками техник провокативного поведения в сети можно выделить технику опровержения общественного мнения посредством оппозиционных высказываний и технику перехода на личности. Основной стратегией троллинга является стратегия провокации, реализующаяся посредством различных тактик: высмеивания оппонента, тактики тотального отрицания и резкой смены поведения коммуниканта. Троллинг как форма проявления речевой агрессии в интернет-коммуникации всегда находит свое выражение в провокативных репликах. По своему лингвопрагматическому статусу троллинг является высказыванием, в основе которого лежит конфликтогенный потенциал. Данная форма речевой агрессии реализуется как конфликтный коммуникативный акт, который может развиваться по нескольким сценариям. Тематика сообщества обусловливает использование в рамках троллинга провокационных реплик, касающихся конкретных сфер школьной жизни. Основной целью сетевых провокаторов всегда является коммуникативный конфликт. Заключение. Актуальность исследования речевой агрессии в школьной среде продиктована тем, что интернет на сегодняшний день является самой востребованной подростками площадкой для общения. Кроме того, виртуальный дискурс стал той сферой, где речевая агрессия находит самое яркое выражение. Introduction. The article examines one of the forms of speech aggression presented in Internet communication. Trolling is a phenomenon that develops along with new Internet technologies, is characteristic exclusively of network discourse and is embodied in provocative remarks. Trolling is a form of speech aggression, it is due to the nature of the Internet discourse. The purpose of the article is to study trolling as one of the forms of speech aggression in Internet communication. Material and methods. The material was publications and comments in the community of Russian schoolchildren on the Vkontakte social network. Discourse analysis became the main method. When selecting the material, the method of continuous sampling was applied. Results and discussion. The article actualizes the manifestation of speech aggression in the network communication of Russian schoolchildren, in particular, trolling techniques, strategies and tactics, through which this form of speech aggression is implemented, are considered and characterized. Among the techniques of provocative behavior most frequently used by schoolchildren on the Internet, one can single out the technique of refuting public opinion through oppositional statements and the technique of getting personal. The main strategy of trolling is the strategy of provocation, which is implemented through various tactics: ridiculing the opponent, tactics of total denial and a sharp change in the behavior of the communicant. Trolling as a form of speech aggression in Internet communication always finds its expression in provocative remarks. According to its linguo-pragmatic status, trolling is a statement based on the potential for conflict. This form of speech aggression is realized as a conflict communicative act that can develop according to several scenarios. Community themes determine the use of provocative remarks within the framework of trolling concerning specific areas of school life. The main goal of network provocateurs is always a communicative conflict. Conclusion. The relevance of the study of speech aggression in the school environment is dictated by the fact that the Internet is by far the most popular communication platform for adolescents. In addition, virtual discourse has become the area where verbal aggression finds its most vivid expression.

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Czetwertyński, Sławomir. "Copyright trolling and the problem of copyright enforcement in the age of internet." Współczesne Problemy Ekonomiczne 15 (2017): 67–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.18276/wpe.2017.15-06.

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Phillips, Whitney. "It Wasn’t Just the Trolls: Early Internet Culture, “Fun,” and the Fires of Exclusionary Laughter." Social Media + Society 5, no. 3 (April 2019): 205630511984949. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305119849493.

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When considering the extremist turn of the Trump-era internet, it is critical to interrogate the influence of subcultural trolling on and around 4chan from 2008 to 2012. The troll space isn’t the only space worth interrogating, however. During this same period, there was a marked overlap between subcultural trolling and the nebulous, discursive category known colloquially as “internet culture.” Both were swiftly absorbed into broader popular culture. Both were characterized by overwhelming irony and detached, fetishized laughter. That participants in these early internet culture spaces (which included but were not limited to “classic” subcultural trolling) were overwhelmingly white, middle class, and felt comfortable enough in their subject positions to respond to the world with a blanket “lol” speaks to much deeper problems than the obvious problems. Pressingly, the things that were—and that for some people, still are—fun and funny and apparently harmless online need more careful unpacking. Fun and funny and apparently harmless things have a way of obscuring weapons that privileged people cannot see, because they do not have to see them. They also have a way of establishing precedent and a step-by-step media manipulation guide that is easily hijacked by those looking to do harm, whose actions often fly under the radar—because those actions look familiar, because they look like the things that used to be fun.

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Jakubowicz, Andrew Henry. "Alt_Right White Lite: Trolling, Hate Speech and Cyber Racism on Social Media." Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9, no. 3 (December 1, 2017): 41–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ccs.v9i3.5655.

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The rapid growth of race hate speech on the Internet seems to have overwhelmed the capacity of states, corporations or civil society to limit its spread and impact. Yet by understanding how the political economy of the Internet facilitates racism it is possible to chart strategies that might push back on its negative social effects. Only by involving the state, economy and civil society at both the global level, and locally, can such a process begin to develop an effective ‘civilising’ dynamic. However neo-liberalism and democratic license may find such an exercise ultimately overwhelmingly challenging, especially if the fundamental logical drivers that underpin the business model of the Internet cannot be transformed. This article charts the most recent rise and confusion of the Internet under the impact of the Alt-Right and other racist groups, focusing on an Australian example that demonstrates the way in which a group could manipulate the contradictions of the Internet with some success. Using an analytical model developed to understand the political economy and sociology of mass media power in the later stages of modernity, before the Internet, the author offers a series of proposals on how to address racism on the Internet.

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Chen, Yimin. "“Being a butt while on the internet”: Perceptions of what is and isn't internet trolling." Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 55, no. 1 (January 2018): 76–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501009.

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Djurdjevic, Dragan, and Miroslav Stevanovic. "Internet as a method of trolling offensive intelligence operations in cyberspace." Nauka, bezbednost, policija 22, no. 2 (2017): 13–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/nabepo22-12060.

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Zvereva, Vera. "Trolling as a Digital Literary Practice in the Russian Language Internet." Russian Literature 118 (November 2020): 107–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ruslit.2020.11.005.

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M.Si, Ilham Gemiharto, and Sukaesih M.Si. "The Phenomenon of Internet Trolling and the Spreading of Hate Speech on Social Media." International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation 24, no. 1 (January 31, 2020): 510–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.37200/ijpr/v24i1/pr200156.

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Bishop, Jonathan. "Digital Teens and the ‘Antisocial Network'." International Journal of E-Politics 5, no. 3 (July 2014): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijep.2014070101.

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A concern shared among nearly all generations of adults is that they must do something to tackle the problems in society caused by young people. They often forget that they were once young, and all too often blame young people for all of problems in their community. This paper challenges this view and shows how the blaming of Internet trolling on today's young people – called digital teens – is probably inaccurate. What might otherwise be called Troublesome Online Youth Groups (TOYGs), this paper looks at data collected from subjects in three UK regions (n=150 to 161), which includes young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEETs). Unlike might be typically thought, the data shows that far from these NEETs being the causes of Internet trolling it is in fact the areas with high levels of productivity, higher education and higher intelligence that report lower perceptions of quality of life that these electronic message faults (EMFts) most occur in.

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Davis, Patricia G. "Spatiality at the Cyber-Margins: Black-Oriented Blogs and the Production of Territoriality Online." Social Media + Society 6, no. 2 (April 2020): 205630512092850. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305120928506.

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This essay analyzes the challenges African American–oriented blogs must confront in terms of spatiality, specifically that associated with racial trolling. I argue that racial trolling, which encompasses a set of actions wherein users make inflammatory comments in a manner designed specifically to advance racist tropes, represents a mode of spatial aggression that operates in ways reproductive of the power relations that characterize the offline world. I further argue that neoliberalism, which has transformed these sites from relatively small, niche communities of primarily black users to commercially oriented sites open to mass participation, has strengthened the mobility of whiteness on the internet and exacerbated the trolling behaviors. In confronting the challenges these spatial aggressions pose, community members invoke their own sense of agency regarding space, mobilizing various types of user moderation as means of preserving these sites as their own cyber-territories. In constructing this argument, I conduct a critical technocultural discourse analysis (CTDA) of discourse from the comments sections of two black-oriented websites, TheRoot and VerySmartBrothas.

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Masui, Keita. "The effects of Dark Tetrad and social isolation on the internet trolling." Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association 82 (September 25, 2018): 1PM—019–1PM—019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4992/pacjpa.82.0_1pm-019.

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Masui, Keita. "Loneliness moderates the relationship between Dark Tetrad personality traits and internet trolling." Personality and Individual Differences 150 (November 2019): 109475. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.06.018.

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DiFranco, Ralph. "I Wrote this Paper for the Lulz: the Ethics of Internet Trolling." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 23, no. 5 (August 15, 2020): 931–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10677-020-10115-x.

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AO, Song Harris, and Angela K. Y. Mak. "Regenerative crisis, social media publics and Internet trolling: A cultural discourse approach." Public Relations Review 47, no. 4 (November 2021): 102072. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2021.102072.

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Kolek, Agnieszka. "Dissocial behaviors of young people in the Internet space. Pedagogical implications." Problemy Opiekuńczo-Wychowawcze 566, no. 1 (January 31, 2018): 47–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0011.6064.

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Dissocial behaviors (known as ’conduct disorders’) understood as asocial and antisocial attitudes no longer relate to the real world only. The phenomenon of persistent dissocial behaviors imbued with disapproval, accusation, exclusion, or aggression towards peers has been increasingly frequent on the Internet. Researchers more and more often point to cyberbullying, grooming, griefing, trolling, and hate in the context of asocial phenomena marked with lack of empathy and disregard for norms and rules of social obligations. This article is an attempt to indicate and include selected areas of psychopathology into the field of media pedagogy research.

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Zdunkiewicz-Jedynak, Dorota. "Nowe wyrazy w polszczyźnie XXI wieku odnoszące się do werbalnej agresji i przemocy." Język a Kultura 26 (February 22, 2017): 37–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/1232-9657.26.4.

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New words relating to verbal aggression and violence in thetwenty-first century Polish languageAmongst discussed new Polish words referring to aggression and violence we can find only one word that really describes anew kind of verbal aggressive behaviour — hejting. Others relate to communication behaviours known outside of the network, in our times Internet provides only new possibilities of their realisation cyberbullying, cyberstalking or trolling.

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Buckels, Erin E., Paul D. Trapnell, Tamara Andjelovic, and Delroy L. Paulhus. "Internet trolling and everyday sadism: Parallel effects on pain perception and moral judgment." Journal of Personality 87, no. 2 (August 14, 2018): 328–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12393.

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Masui, Keita, Ayame Tamura, and Evita March. "Development of a Japanese version of the Global Assessment of Internet Trolling-Revised." Japanese journal of psychology 89, no. 6 (2019): 602–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.4992/jjpsy.89.17229.

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de Zeeuw, Daniël, and Marc Tuters. "Teh Internet Is Serious Business." Cultural Politics 16, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 214–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8233406.

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At the fringes of an increasingly hegemonic platform economy, there exists another web of anonymous forums and image boards whose unique “mask culture” the article aims to deconstruct by tracing its roots in the cyber-separationist imaginary of early internet culture, in a way that can be seen to undermine the new “face culture” of social media platforms like Facebook. The practices that characterize this “deep vernacular web” are anti- and impersonal rather than personal, ephemeral and aleatory rather than persistent and predictable, collective rather than individual, stranger-rather than friend-oriented, and radically public and contagious rather than privatized, filtered, and contained. Characterized by its ephemerality and anonymity, and preoccupied with dissimulative identity play, memes, and trolling, the set of subcultural attitudes that characterizes this part of the web can be summarized by the ironic and intentionally misspelled phrase “Teh internet is serious business.” By exploring the vernacular significance of this saying and how it can be seen to articulate an oppositional attitude to the currently hegemonic platform culture, this article simultaneously aims to contribute to contemporary debates on the reactionary turn in internet culture associated with the global rise of the alt-right.

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Huhtinen, Aki-Mauri. "The Double Edge of the Information Sword." International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism 5, no. 2 (April 2015): 21–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcwt.2015040102.

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In 1990, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its clandestine propaganda machine, the West became increasingly confident that globalization supported by an information technology network, the Internet, would increase openness, liberalism, and democracy; the core values of the ‘free world'. Western leaders knew then, just as they know now, a quarter of a century later that the power of the Internet would grow as the technology that controls its use develops. And developed it has. However, no development is all good and the Internet is no exception. It seems that the technology that has enabled us to create a “global village” where people are able to communicate in a way that is open, free and that bypasses the encumbrances of class and ethnicity has also brought with it a very dark underworld, an uncontrolled rhizome or meshwork, where propaganda, trolling and hate speeches are rife.

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Gritsenko, Lubov M., and Tatiana A. Demidova. "The discrediting speech strategy in Internet communication (on the example of the use of trolling)." Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Filologiya, no. 55 (October 1, 2018): 29–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/19986645/55/3.

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Akopova, Anna. "Problems of Countering Cyber Attacks in Broadcasting (by the example of International News Agency Russia Today)." Theoretical and Practical Issues of Journalism 8, no. 4 (October 26, 2019): 829–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.17150/2308-6203.2019.8(4).829-838.

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The article deals with issues of countering cyber-attacks (so-called trolling and hacking) in Internet broadcasting, and using social networks in info-competition and communication discourse in German-language on-air, by the example of International News Agency “Russia Today” (RT) and its website Sputnik. The topicality of the article is based on the fact that RT’s website Sputnik is a relatively new resource on the European information market. The author analyzes the cases and contexts of countering malware and targeted cyber-attacks on European German-language broadcasting agencies. The study of RT’s and Sputnik’s journalists’ work shows that it is actively hindered by some Western countries, particularly the USA and the UK, which are obsessed by anti-Russian xenophobia and the unproved pre-conception of Russia’s interference with their internal affairs. These countries openly admit to be waging an outreach war against Russian broadcasting companies by means of hacking attacks. Russian multi-language broadcasting channel RT, founded in 2005, successfully reflects and transmits Russia’s official position on key issues of the international politics and countering cyber-attacks by foreign “trolls” and “hackers”. A website is currently the most easily accessible among all digital communication channels, and its quality is easy to assess. Considering this, the author describes advantages of RT’s transition from social networks to its German-language site Sputnik. The measures taken in order to optimize its structure, adapt to mobile devices, and provide convenience of site navigation, enabled Sputnik to enlarge its geographic reach and enter the circle of foreign German-language social networks. Keywords. Internet broadcasting, broadcasting, cyber-attacks, information war, trolling, hacking, German-speaking audience, management of news, International News Agency “Russia Today” (INA RT), website Sputnik, Internet media, social networks, RIA Novosti.

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García Lirios, Cruz. "Confiabilidad y validez de un instrumento que mide la intención de uso de internet." Contexto 7 (December 11, 2018): 31–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.18634/ctxj.7v.0i.835.

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A menudo la intención de uso de Internet ha sido observada como una variable mediadora entre factores externos a una decisión o comportamiento que se intensifica en la medida en que internet se especializa en las necesidades y expectativas de sus usuarios. El objetivo del presente trabajo fue contrastar un modelo para el estudio de la variable en comento, mediante el establecimiento de la confiabilidad y la validez de un instrumento que midió tres dimensiones de la variable intencional. Se llevó a cabo un estudio no experimental con una selección no probabilística de 220 estudiantes de una universidad pública del centro de México. A partir de un modelo estructural se explicó hasta el 50% de la varianza total, sugi-riendo la inclusión de otros factores que la literatura ubica en dimensiones de insatisfacción, adicción y ansiedad como stalking, trolling, stashing y buying. Futuras líneas de contraste del modelo con la inclusión de las variables permitirán esclarecer el proceso de racionalidad deliberada en torno al uso intensivo de Internet.

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March, Evita, and Genevieve Steele. "High Esteem and Hurting Others Online: Trait Sadism Moderates the Relationship Between Self-Esteem and Internet Trolling." Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 23, no. 7 (July 1, 2020): 441–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2019.0652.

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Vicenová, Radka, and Daniel Trottier. "“The first combat meme brigade of the Slovak internet”: hybridization of civic engagement through digital media trolling." Communication Review 23, no. 2 (April 2, 2020): 145–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2020.1797435.

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Gertz, Nolen. "Democratic Potentialities and Toxic Actualities." Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 24, no. 1 (2020): 178–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/techne2020214119.

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In this paper I argue that while Feenberg’s critical constructivism can help us to see the political potential of technologies, it cannot help us to understand the political actuality of technologies without the help of postphenomenology. In part 2, I examine Feenberg’s attempt to merge Frankfurt School critical theory and SCOT into “critical constructivism.” In part 3, I focus on Feenberg’s analyses of the internet in order to highlight a blind spot in critical constructivism when it comes to threats to democracy that come from out of the demos itself. In part 4, I show how critical constructivism would benefit from adopting the theory of technological mediation found in postphenomenology by presenting a postphenomenological investigation of trolling and other forms of destructive behavior unaccounted for by Feenberg’s investigation of the internet. In part 5, I conclude by turning to the work of Hannah Arendt in order to show why, just as critical constructivism could benefit from becoming more postphenomenological, postphenomenology could benefit from becoming more critical.

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Jay, Timothy. "Swearing, moral order, and online communication." Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 6, no. 1 (July 2, 2018): 107–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00005.jay.

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Abstract This paper addresses problems with swearing on the internet. The opening section of the paper defines swearing (uttering offensive emotional speech) as a ubiquitous form of impolite human behavior. Swearing can occur wherever humans communicate with each other and that it appears in computer-mediated communication (CMC) is not surprising. The second section documents how swearwords appear in email, blogs, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube and in other practices and sites (trolling, 4chan). Swearword use is situated in the context of emerging research on impoliteness and moral order (politeness norms and standards that govern internet behavior). Online swearword use is a function of moral order, as well as users’ interpersonal characteristics such as age (younger more likely than older users), gender (men more likely than women), the time of day (later in the day and evening), and a website’s social composition (adversarial and male dominated more than homogeneous friendly sites). The paper concludes with suggestions for dealing with internet swearword use where regulation is desirable and feasible. Websites and communities should develop moral order norms that at a minimum restrict illegal forms of speech (e.g., credible threats of violence, workplace sexual harassment).

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Lazareva, Irina, and Evgeniy Miheev. "IMPROVING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL RESISTANCE OF YOUNG PEOPLE TO MANIPULATIVE INFLUENCE ON THE INTERNET." Applied psychology and pedagogy 6, no. 3 (July 1, 2021): 38–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/2500-0543-2021-6-3-38-51.

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Increasing psychological resistance to manipulative influence and preventing the involvement of minors in illegal activities with the help of information and communication technologies (ICTs) are important tasks of the State. The article analyzes some psychological mechanisms that contribute to manipulation on the Internet, including the effects of normative influence, conformity, perceived interpersonal similarity, cascades of available information, emotional contagion, hemophilicity, false memories, and multiple sources. The authors analyze the main strategies for promoting false and misleading information: artificial polarization, managing false accounts on behalf of public opinion leaders, creating emotional messages, using conspiracy theories, trolling aimed at provoking harassment of users on the network, defaming and delegitimizing opponents. Attention is also drawn to ways to counteract destructive information and psychological impact, which include not only ways to improve the legislative apparatus and the use of software and technical solutions, but also to increase the level of psychological stability of citizens, conducting preventive and preventive measures aimed at forming ideas about information threats, their types, methods of identification and protection, group norms and values. The author points out the need to develop and implement special psychological trainings and games created in the form of computer programs, mobile applications and online simulators in the socio-cultural and educational environment.

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Napieralski, Andrzej. "La "guerre" des internautes - le hate dans la communication sur internet." Linguistica 58, no. 1 (March 14, 2019): 173–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.58.1.173-187.

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La guerre, cette lutte entre groupes sociaux aux convictions différentes, n’épargne pas internet qui était censé rapprocher les gens au lieu de les diviser. Dans la communication sur internet, nous retrouvons, souvent un discours particulier, relevant tant du hate speech qui est la manifestation de l’intolérance, du racisme, de la xénophobie et de l’ethnocentrisme que du trolling, c’est-à-dire de cette attitude visant à nuire à autrui en le ridiculisant et troubler la communication en brisant les bonnes moeurs. Afin de définir l’attitude des internautes qui commentent différents articles du monde politique sur internet, nous nous proposons d’utiliser un terme transitoire - hate qui est un emprunt au slang américain, fonctionnant cependant très bien aussi en Pologne. Ce terme englobe une attitude proche de la critique qui est toutefois caractéristique du persiflage des «rageux» sur la toile. Dans notre communication nous nous proposons d’analyser le discours des internautes présent dans les commentaires des articles politiques dans les deux plus grands quotidiens français et polonais dans leurs versions en ligne, respectivement Le Monde (lemonde.fr) et Gazeta Wyborcza (gazeta.pl). Il sera question d’exemples du phénomène hate tant au niveau de l’analyse du discours que de l’utilisation de formes lexicales souvent injurieuses, argotiques ou relevant de la créativité néologiques des internautes. Il sera aussi question de voir si le degré du hate varie selon les locuteurs de pays différents, ou si cela est une tendance générale pour la communauté linguistique des internautes et qui relève de la mondialisation.

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Bishop, Jonathan. "Representations of 'trolls' in mass media communication: a review of media-texts and moral panics relating to 'internet trolling'." International Journal of Web Based Communities 10, no. 1 (2014): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijwbc.2014.058384.

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Bishop, J. "Scope and Limitations in the Government of Wales Act 2006 for Tackling Internet Abuses in the Form of 'Flame Trolling'." Statute Law Review 33, no. 2 (April 22, 2012): 207–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/slr/hms016.

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Nikishin, V. D., and K. M. Bogatyrev. "Results of the Scientific and Practical Conference "Countering Information and Ideological Threats in the Internet Environment Using Special Knowledge"." Actual Problems of Russian Law 16, no. 6 (July 9, 2021): 171–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.17803/19941471.2021.127.6.171-177.

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The paper provides a brief overview of the conference with international participation, held on December 3, 2020, "Countering Information and Ideological Threats in the Internet Environment Using Special Knowledge", jointly organized by the Department of Forensic Science of Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL), the Russian Federal Center for Forensic Science under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation and the Center for Academic Development and Educational Innovation of Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL). Due to the current sanitary and epidemiological situation, the conference was held in an online format using the Zoom platform, and this factor positively contributed to the quality of the discussion. During active discussions at the conference, general theoretical and applied problems of ensuring information and ideological security in the Internet environment were considered, including the problems of countering extremism, bullying, trolling, propaganda of suicide, prison culture, the cult of violence and cruelty, sexting, grooming, fake news, defamation, etc. Special attention was given to the forensic problems of using special knowledge in the study of malicious computer programs, counterfeit and undocumented information and computer products. The conference was held with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research within the framework of research projects No. 20-011-00190, 18-29-16003.

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Mustapha, Mulikat Ladi, Shuaib Abolakale Muhammad, and Faith Folusho Olowoniyi. "PREVALENCE AND FORMS OF ONLINE HARASSMENT AMONG UNDERGRADUATES OF A NIGERIAN UNIVERSITY." SPEKTA (Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat : Teknologi dan Aplikasi) 2, no. 1 (June 11, 2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/spekta.v2i1.2972.

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The upsurge in accessing and utilizing the internet and social networking sites for social activities predisposes adolescents and young adults globally to online harassment, Nigerian undergraduates inclusive. The impacts of online harassment have attracted many research interests, especially in the developed world and the dearth of inquiries among Nigerian undergraduates. This work inquired about the prevalence and forms of online harassment perpetrated by undergraduates in a Nigerian university. A descriptive research design was adopted, data were amassed utilizing a three-sectioned self-report form administered on a sample of 420 undergraduates. The selection of the sample was made following a multistage procedure. Percentage and univariate analysis techniques were used for data analysis. The result of the inquiry revealed widespread online harassment among the undergraduates of the university. All the forms of online harassment assessed were perpetrated; dog pilling topped the list (63.1%), followed by trolling (44.0%). The high rate of occurrence demands the urgent attention of the university authority, professionals across relevant fields should create awareness; the need to develop interventions and policies to deal with online harassment is obvious

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Virkar, Shefali. "Trolls Just Want To Have Fun." International Journal of E-Politics 5, no. 4 (October 2014): 21–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijep.2014100102.

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Over the last two decades, public confidence and trust in Government has declined visibly in several Western liberal democracies owing to a distinct lack of opportunities for citizen participation in political processes; and has instead given way instead to disillusionment with current political institutions, actors, and practices. The rise of the Internet as a global communications medium and the advent of digital platforms has opened up huge opportunities and raised new challenges for public institutions and agencies, with digital technology creating new forms of community; empowering citizens and reforming existing power structures in a way that has rendered obsolete or inappropriate many of the tools and processes of traditional democratic politics. Through an analysis of the No. 10 Downing Street ePetitions Initiative based in the United Kingdom, this article seeks to engage with issues related to the innovative use of network technology by Government to involve citizens in policy processes within existing democratic frameworks in order to improve administration, to reform democratic processes, and to renew citizen trust in institutions of governance. In particular, the work seeks to examine whether the application of the new Information and Communication Technologies to participatory democracy in the Government 2.0 era would eventually lead to radical transformations in government functioning, policymaking, and the body politic, or merely to modest, unspectacular political reform and to the emergence of technology-based, obsessive-compulsive pathologies and Internet-based trolling behaviours amongst individuals in society.

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Voronin, A. N., and T. A. Kubrak T.A. "Conceptualization of the Phenomenon of Subjectness of the Network Community Using a Grounded Theory Method." Experimental Psychology (Russia) 13, no. 3 (2020): 4–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/exppsy.2020130301.

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The study of the characteristics of network communities is due to the increasingly complete transition of social life into the Internet space. Subjectness is a key psychological characteristic of a community that manifests itself in its discourse. The method of grounded theory as one of the most advanced methods in the coding paradigm allows conceptualizing the phenomenon of subjectness of network communities by analyzing their discourse. The article shows how this method is consistently used and how the problems associated with the psychological interpretation of constructs generated from the “empirical field” are overcome. So the problem of the diversity manifestations of subjectness was solved by subjective scaling of the contribution of substantive codes during the reconstruction of the structure of implicit ideas about the subjectness of the network community. Further iterations in the process of constructing a ground theory and the development of a short list of discursive markers of subjectness led to the inclusion methods for comparing factor structures. The analysis of the trolling process made it possible to introduce into the developed model of subjectness the ideas about current and potential components.

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Dempsey Willis, Reilly Anne. "Habermasian utopia or Sunstein's echo chamber? The ‘dark side’ of hashtag hijacking and feminist activism." Legal Studies 40, no. 3 (June 15, 2020): 507–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/lst.2020.16.

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AbstractSociety thinks, talks, and communicates in ways which are inherently different now from the pre-Internet era. Hashtags in particular have transformed community formation around a particular topic, issue, or goal. A new and relatively under-studied phenomenon is that of ‘hashtag hijacking’, where individuals or groups use a particular hashtag to draw attention to arguments and narratives which undermine or oppose the hashtag's objective. Most of the current literature looks at hashtag hijacking as a positive outlet for counter-discourse/counter-narratives to challenge dominant groups. This study, however, looks at the ‘dark side’ of hashtag hijacking, where groups use trolling tactics similar to the Alt_Right to reinforce misogynistic views. The hijacking of three hashtags is explored in this study: #notacriminal, #women2drive, and #mydressmychoice, to explore feminist theories on the role of social media in a ‘public space’. Does Twitter function as one common public sphere where inequalities are so deeply embedded that minority voices have no hope of being heard? Or does Twitter function as a meeting place for multiple competing public spheres, thus allowing minority – and in this case feminist – voices to be heard?

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Huy Binh, Nguyen. "Criminological Analysis and Filtering of Sites with Aggressive Content." Revista Amazonia Investiga 9, no. 29 (May 18, 2020): 482–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.34069/ai/2020.29.05.53.

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The work carried out a study of the current problem of minimizing risks and damage from aggressive impacts on the Internet, in social networks. The methodology of system and forensic analysis has been used. Using methods of mathematical and information-logical analysis, comparative and cognitive analysis of counteraction to aggressive impact on the visitor or owner of the site (moderator of the forum) is carried out. Methods of aggressive behavior (disinhibition, trolling, cyber-bullying and astroturfing), their local and global goals - up to the capture and management of communicative resources for the purpose of affecting the user - have been analyzed. Aggressiveness on the site has become a public problem, legally not only in Vietnam, but also in many countries, including Russia, France, South Korea, etc. Hosting distances itself from an important problem for it as well. The aggressiveness of a site is classified by the site's aggressiveness scale. Criminological identification of aggression and aggressor is a complex and multidimensional problem. Was carried out systemic and practical, criminological analysis of aggressive behavior on sites. Was possible to formulate and propose measures, approaches to filtering and combating aggressive behavior on the site, as well as to formalize it mathematically, for subsequent research. The analysis will help to counter the aggressor and support the victim.

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Keller, Nadine, and Tina Askanius. "Combatting hate and trolling with love and reason? A qualitative analysis of the discursive antagonisms between organized hate speech and counterspeech online." Studies in Communication and Media 9, no. 4 (2020): 540–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/2192-4007-2020-4-540.

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An increasingly organized culture of hate is flourishing in today’s online spaces, posing a serious challenge for democratic societies. Our study seeks to unravel the workings of online hate on popular social media and assess the practices, potentialities, and limitations of organized counterspeech to stymie the spread of hate online. This article is based on a case study of an organized “troll army” of online hate speech in Germany, Reconquista Germanica, and the counterspeech initiative Reconquista Internet. Conducting a qualitative content analysis, we first unpack the strategies and stated intentions behind organized hate speech and counterspeech groups as articulated in their internal strategic documents. We then explore how and to what extent such strategies take shape in online media practices, focusing on the interplay between users spreading hate and users counterspeaking in the comment sections of German news articles on Facebook. The analysis draws on a multi-dimensional framework for studying social media engagement (Uldam & Kaun, 2019) with a focus on practices and discourses and turns to Mouffe’s (2005) concepts of political antagonism and agonism to operationalize and deepen the discursive dimension. The study shows that the interactions between the two opposing camps are highly moralized, reflecting a post-political antagonistic battle between “good” and “evil” and showing limited signs of the potentials of counterspeech to foster productive agonism. The empirical data indicates that despite the promising intentions of rule-guided counterspeech, the counter efforts identified and scrutinized in this study predominantly fail to adhere to civic and moral standards and thus only spur on the destructive dynamics of digital hate culture.

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