Internet Trolls

Published: Nov. 1, 2023, 10 a.m.

b'What makes someone a troll? We are all a little bit troll-y sometimes. We dive into how and why it works, when it is good and bad, and a brief history of trolls. Join us for the psychology of troll behavior.

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Links and References:
  1. Cheng, J., Bernstein, M., Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, C., & Leskovec, J. (2017). Anyone Can Become a Troll. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. CSCW \\u201917: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998213
  2. https://apnews.com/article/biden-internet-broadband-bead-0b95fabd7f6833ce420c80d474a145a5
  3. https://blog.hootsuite.com/how-to-deal-with-trolls-on-social-media/
  4. https://computer.howstuffworks.com/troll.htm
  5. https://medium.com/dose/what-did-trolling-look-like-before-the-internet-cb42890265c0


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