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“On September 23-26, 2019 the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) will host the sixth Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica). This landmark event convenes a […]
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I conduct an experiment which examines the impact of group norm promotion and social sanctioning on racist online harassment. Racist online harassment de-mobilizes the minorities it targets, and the open, […]
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A big, troll-fighting change is coming to Rotten Tomatoes. The website is changing the way it tabulates audience scores by only allowing users who bought a movie ticket through its […]
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We propose a model of how messages about groups one personally dislikes affect individual attitudes. We build upon theories of message persuasion and out-group acceptance to account for evidence type […]
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We propose a model of how messages about groups one personally dislikes affect individual attitudes. We build upon theories of message persuasion and out-group acceptance to account for evidence type […]
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The Internet is often assumed to be full of unprecedented antagonism: nasty memes mocking anything from a death in someone’s family to terrorism and mass shootings, trolls harassing others just […]
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The Internet is often assumed to be full of unprecedented antagonism: nasty memes mocking anything from a death in someone’s family to terrorism and mass shootings, trolls harassing others just […]
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Reuters found more than 1,000 examples of content attacking the Rohingya and other Muslims on Facebook. A secretive operation to combat the vitriol has failed to stop it.
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This article explores the racial politics of trolling by examining virtual world raids conducted by users of the internet message board 4chan. Since these raids deploy offensive language and imagery […]
