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FCJ-156 Hacking the Social: Internet Memes, Identity Antagonism, and the...
Ryan M. Milner College of Charleston Abstract: 4chan and reddit are participatory media collectives undergirded by a “logic of lulz” that favours distanced irony and critique. It often works at the...
View ArticleFCJ-165 Obama Trolling: Memes, Salutes and an Agonistic Politics in the 2012...
Benjamin Burroughs University of Iowa Abstract: During the 2012 presidential campaign an explosion of photo-shopped images circulated that depicted President Obama as unpatriotic. The ‘crotch salute’,...
View ArticleFCJ-160 Politics is Serious Business: Jacques Rancière, Griefing, and the...
Steve Holmes. Department of English, George Mason University. Abstract: This article contextualises certain elements of ‘griefing’ as a form of political action in virtual world by drawing on the...
View ArticleFCJ-157 Still ‘Searching for Safety Online’: collective strategies and...
Frances Shaw University of Sydney Abstract: This paper examines the discursive responses that participants in a network of feminist blogs developed to handle trolling in their community. Internet...
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FCJ-158 Tits or GTFO: The logics of misogyny on 4chan’s Random – /b/
Vyshali Manivannan Rutgers University Abstract: The decentralised, anonymous imageboard 4chan is decried for its discursive construction of gender, particularly on its Random - /b/ board. However,...
View ArticleFCJ-155 EVEN WITH CRUISE CONTROL YOU STILL HAVE TO STEER: defining trolling...
Andrew Whelan University of Wollongong Abstract: ‘Trolling’ is not a pre-given aspect of a discursive environment, which we enter into and then identify as such. This paper demonstrates that trolling...
View ArticleIssue 22: Trolls and the Negative Space of the Internet
Troll Theory? We only talk about trolls inside a polemic. To aver that someone is trolling is to allege that their participation conceals the aims of their disruption; by implication, they are to be...
View ArticleFCJ-161 Productive Provocations: Vitriolic Media, Spaces of Protest and...
Anthony McCosker Swinburne University, Faculty of Life and Social Sciences Amelia Johns Deakin University, Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation Abstract: The intense social upheaval that spread...
View ArticleFCJ-167 Spraying, fishing, looking for trouble: The Chinese Internet and a...
Gabriele de Seta Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Abstract: Internet research has dealt with trolls from many different perspectives, framing them as agents...
View ArticleFCJ-164 ‘Don’t be Rude on the Road’: Cycle Blogging, Trolling and Lifestyle
Steve Jones Nottingham Trent University Abstract: This article examines hostile noise on the UK Guardian’s Bike Blog. Like the Internet, the bicycle has been framed as a redemptive technology at the...
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FCJ-154 Trolls, Peers and the Diagram of Collaboration
Nathaniel Tkacz University of Warwick Abstract: The warm and fuzzy rhetorics of network cultures–words like collaboration, participation and open communities–have always been made possible through acts...
View ArticleFCJ-162 Symbolic violence in the online field: Calls for ‘civility’ in online...
Shannon Sindorf University of Colorado, Boulder Abstract: In this paper, I argue that enforcing norms of civility in a deliberative space can be dangerous, as a requirement of civility can be used as a...
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FCJ-166 ‘Change name to No One. Like people’s status’ Facebook Trolling and...
Tero Karppi University of Turku, Finland Abstract: In this article I focus on both the actual operations and actions of trolling and how trolls are or are not defined by Facebook’s various discourse...
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FCJ-159 /b/lack up: What Trolls Can Teach Us About Race
Tanner Higgin Independent Scholar Abstract: This article explores the racial politics of trolling by examining virtual world raids conducted by users of the internet message board 4chan. Since these...
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FCJ-163 Olympic Trolls: Mainstream Memes and Digital Discord?
Tama Leaver Curtin University Abstract: While the mainstream press have often used the accusation of trolling to cover almost any form of online abuse, the term itself has a long and changing history....
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