Into the wild online: Learning from Internet trolls

Birkbak, Andreas

doi:10.5210/fm.v22i5.8297

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Fake News Trolls Misinformation and Manipulations1

Introduction: Ethnography and The Digital1

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“…A related, but separate, phenomenon, which may seriously impact opinion dynamics, is Internet trolling. The origins of trolls date back to early Usenet chatrooms, and since the 1980s, the trolling has evolved in multiple dimensions [139,140]. They now include elements such as emotional manipulation through provocation, incivility, abuse, but also concentrated attacks representing specific views (sometimes attributed to foreign meddling in political affairs, such as the "Kremlin trolls" [141][142][143]).…”

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Whither Now, Opinion Modelers?

Sobkowicz

2020

Front. Phys.

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Whither Now, Opinion Modelers?

Sobkowicz

2020

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“…As a consequence, our social, organisational, political, commercial and academic life is now increasingly digitally mediated and enabled. The widespread digitisation has also generated a flood of new phenomena for social science to study: Online user communities (Hyysalo 2021), algorithmic recommender systems (Seaver 2019), internet trolls (Birkbak 2018), surveillance capitalism (Zuboff 2019) and much more. At the same time, the pervasive digital mediation is beginning to transform the very conditions for doing social science (Latour 2007; Berry, 2011; Kitchin 2014; Marres, 2017).…”

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The Slalom Method: How to zig-zag between digital methods and traditional methods in ethnography

Jensen

2022

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The increasing availability of digital resources is an opportunity as well as a challenge for ethnographers who seek to incorporate ‘the digital’ into their field studies. This article is an attempt to reflect on the peculiar nature of new digital resources, their relation to conventional method integration problems, and the practical opportunities for making the digital relevant to ethnographic field studies. These reflections are grounded in the authors’ trials and tribulations during an ethnographic project, in which a deliberate attempt was made to combine digital methods with traditional ethnographic methods. This involved wrestling with a series of methodological issues, which were eventually managed by developing an approach called the slalom method. The slalom method consists of a series of rules and heuristics that together constitutes a pragmatic strategy for facilitating the integration of digital resources into the iterative and reflexive process of an ethnographic field study.

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Into the wild online: Learning from Internet trolls

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Whither Now, Opinion Modelers?

Whither Now, Opinion Modelers?

The Slalom Method: How to zig-zag between digital methods and traditional methods in ethnography

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