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Preface Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Internet Trolling
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Abstract | Internet trolling is one of the fastest spreading pieces of computer jargon of the 21st century. Barely a day goes by where trolling and " trolls " are not in the news. Internet trolling has come to refer to any form of abuse carried out online for the pleasure of the person causing the abuse or the audience to which they are trying to appeal. The simplest definition of Internet trolling is the posting of provocative or offensive messages on the Internet for humourous effect. The word 'troll' when used to refer to persons who try to provoke others originated in the US military in the 1960s prior to the realisation of the Inter-net for mass communication, with the term, trolling for MiGs. This was reputed to be used by US Navy pilots in Vietnam in their dog-fighting, popularised by the film starring Tom Cruise called Top Gun. Such a practice, of trying to provoke the opposing fighter pilots was not an authorised operation, but was defended by pilots in order to identify their " strengths and weaknesses. " Following this military use of the term trolling, the advent of the Internet soon led to similar phrases like trolling for newbies, which became a common expression in the early 1990s in the Usenet group, alt.folklore.urban. One of the first recorded attempts to define trolling was in the mid-1990s with the launch of the book, netlingo, which is now also online where one can see their definition of trolling. Others have described a Troll as someone who mostly initiates threads with seemingly legitimate questions or conversation starters, but with the ultimate goal of drawing others into useless discussions. We now know something about what Internet trolling is and where it came from, but what do we do about it? This book starts the process of answering this question. The first section on social, legal and ethical issues in relation to Internet trolling gets the ball rolling. Sutirtha Chatterjee's chapter on ethical behaviour in online environments is particularly poignant in the discussion of Internet trolling. Sutirtha describes a number of unethical behaviours that inhibit participation in online communities. This includes flaming, swearing, insults, and deception. Such behaviours are now grouped under the header of Internet trolling. Even though flaming is the posting of offensive messages online, they are not always as negative as one might first think. For instance, there are users … |
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