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Using genre theory to understand Internet trolling in various online communities: Representations of Wales in transgressive humour on the World Wide Web

July 15, 2012

Using genre theory to understand Internet trolling in various online communities: Representations of Wales … Citation Bishop, J. (2012). Using genre theory to understand Internet trolling in various online communities: Representations of Wales in transgressive humour on the World Wide Web. Published in the Proceedings of WORLDCOMP’12.

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The Art of Trolling Law Enforcement: A Review and Model for implementing ‘flame trolling’ legislation enacted in Great Britain (1981-2012)

July 15, 2012

The Art of Trolling Law Enforcement: A Review and Model for implementing ‘flame trolling’ legislation enact… Citation Bishop, J. (In Press). The Art of Trolling Law Enforcement: A Review and Model for implementing ‘flame trolling’ legislation enacted in Great Britain (1981-2012). International Journal of Law, Computers and Technology.

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The Psychology of Trolling and Lurking: The Role of Defriending and Gamification for Increasing Participation in Online Communities Using Seductive Narratives

July 15, 2012

The Psychology of Trolling and Lurking: The Role of Defriending and Gamification for Increasing Participati… Citation Bishop, J. (2013). The Psychology of Trolling and Lurking: The Role of Defriending and Gamification for Increasing Participation in Online Communities Using Seductive Narratives. In: J. Bishop (Ed.) Examining the Concepts, Issues, and Implications of Internet Trolling. IGI Global.

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Scope and Limitations in the Government of Wales Act 2006 for Tackling Internet Abuses in the Form of ‘Flame Trolling’

May 14, 2012

Scope and Limitations in the Government of Wales Act 2006 for Tackling Internet Abuses in the Form of ‘Flam… Citation Bishop, J. (2012). Scope and Limitations in the Government of Wales Act 2006 for Tackling Internet Abuses in the Form of ‘Flame Trolling’. Statute Law Review 33 (2), 207-216. For the Full-text visit: http://slr.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/04/21/slr.hms016.extract

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Tackling Internet abuse in Great Britain: Towards a framework for classifying severities of ‘flame trolling’

May 8, 2012

Abstract While trolling has existed as a term since the 1990s and as a reality even earlier there has been an exponential increase in the prevalence of the abusive kind – ‘flame  trolling’. Mistakenly the media calls these flame trollers,  ‘trolls’, when in fact there are more often than not ‘Snerts’  and ‘E-Vengers’. The justice system in [...]

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Online Empathy

March 7, 2012

This article by Crocels researcher Niki Lambropoulos discusses online empathy in general and the way trolls as “player characters” have low ‘faction.’

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Increasing Capital Revenue in Social Networking Communities: Building Social and Economic Relationships through Avatars and Characters

February 29, 2012

This article by Crocels researcher Jonathan Bishop, shows empirical evidence from an ethnography into online communities which verifies the existence of Trolls as playful characters. Building Social and Economic Relationships through Avatars and Characters

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Tough on data misuse, tough on the causes of data misuse: A review of New Labour’s approach to information security and regulating the misuse of digital information (1997–2010)

February 29, 2012

This article by Crocels researcher Jonathan Bishop discusss the various laws introduced by New Labour to tackle data abuse, of which trolling is part. Tough on data misuse, tough on the causes of data misuse: A review of New Labour’s approach to information …

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