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TY - JOUR
T1 - "Uh.....not to be nitpicky,,,,,but...the past tense of drag is dragged, not drug."
T2 - an overview of trolling strategies
AU - Hardaker, Claire
PY - 2013/6
Y1 - 2013/6
N2 - This paper investigates the phenomenon known as trolling — the behaviour of being deliberately antagonistic or offensive via computer-mediated communication (CMC), typically for amusement’s sake. Having previously started to answer the question, what is trolling? (Hardaker 2010), this paper seeks to answer the next question, how is trolling carried out? To do this, I use software to extract 3,727 examples of user discussions and accusations of trolling from an eighty-six million word Usenet corpus. Initial findings suggest that trolling is perceived to broadly fall across a cline with covert strategies and overt strategies at each pole. I create a working taxonomy of perceived strategies that occur at different points along this cline, and conclude by refining my trolling definition.
AB - This paper investigates the phenomenon known as trolling — the behaviour of being deliberately antagonistic or offensive via computer-mediated communication (CMC), typically for amusement’s sake. Having previously started to answer the question, what is trolling? (Hardaker 2010), this paper seeks to answer the next question, how is trolling carried out? To do this, I use software to extract 3,727 examples of user discussions and accusations of trolling from an eighty-six million word Usenet corpus. Initial findings suggest that trolling is perceived to broadly fall across a cline with covert strategies and overt strategies at each pole. I create a working taxonomy of perceived strategies that occur at different points along this cline, and conclude by refining my trolling definition.
KW - trolling
KW - computer-mediated communication
KW - aggression
KW - deception
KW - manipulation
KW - corpus linguistics
U2 - 10.1075/jlac.1.1.04har
DO - 10.1075/jlac.1.1.04har
M3 - Journal article
VL - 1
SP - 57
EP - 86
JO - Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict
JF - Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict
SN - 2213-1272
IS - 1
ER -