Abstract
This article bringings greater conceptual clarity to research on trolling, with a study that maps college students' perceptions of trolling behaviors and compares them to the media and scholarly interpretations. It identifies 4 behavioral types–serious trolling (not funny and ideologically motivated), humorous trolling, serious non-trolling behaviors, and humorous non-trolling–and 7 behavioral dimensions–meaningfulness, representativeness, pseudo-sincerity, intentionality, provocativeness, repetition, and satire. Employing Formal Concept Analysis it charts relationships between behavioral types and dimensions and develops a typology.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 27-39 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Information Society |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- focus groups
- motivations
- online behavior
- Online trolls
- social informatics
- social perception
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Management Information Systems
- Cultural Studies
- Information Systems
- Political Science and International Relations