Pnina Fichman, Madelyn R. Sanfilippo

Online Trolling and Its Perpetrators (eBook, ePUB)

Under the Cyberbridge

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Online trolling and other deviant behaviors have always affected online communities. As online trolling becomes widely spread, myriad questions are raised, including: Who is a troll and why do trolls troll? What are the enabling factors of online trolling? How do members and administrators of online communities detect, interpret, and react to trolling? How can online trolling be handled effectively? What is the impact of the socio-cultural and technological environments on online trolling?What motivates trolling? The book answers these questions and includes the following focuses: Hard-core trolls and light trollsGender, trolling, and anti-social behavior onlinePerception of trollingCollaborative trollingIdeological trollsTrolling around the globe

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442238510
• Artikelnr.: 44908819

Autorenporträt

Pnina Fichman is a Professor of Information Science at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, and the director of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. She holds a PhD in Information Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.. Professor Fichman has published seven books and hundreds of scholarly manuscripts, mostly about social informatics and online trolling.