If you’re a trolling outsider to the field of trolling you are likely to think that ‘trolls’ are vicious and nasty characters who go online to harass others. This is I’m afraid to say, technically inaccurate. With high profile cases of ‘R.I.P trolling‘, like the bullying of Natasha MacBryde by Sean Duffy, the harassment of [...]
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The 12 Types of Internet Troller
The twelve types of troller are quite unique and will be grouped into pairs because some are quite similar and differing in that one group posts kudos to be friendly and the other flames to be nasty. Troller Character Type Description Lurker Driven by ‘Surveillance’ forces. Lurkers make silent calls by accident, etc., clicking on adverts [...]
Guide to appropriate trolling laws for specific offences
In research approved for publication in the International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, trolling expert Jonathan Bishop proposes the following framework for determining which laws to use for generic flame trolling offences where no dedicated law exists whereby if the same offence was committed offline it could be prosecuted under other laws. This research [...]
Troll Culture – Where did Internet trolling come from?
Internet trolling is one of the fastest spreading pieces of computer jargon of the 21st century. Barely a day goes by where Internet trolling and “trolls” are not in the news. Internet trolling has become known as the posting of provocative or offensive posts on the Internet. Those provocative ones designed for humour are called [...]
