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Mac281 hoaxes and trolls lecture
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- 2. Hoaxes and trolls Trust and authority online #mac281 robert.jewitt@sunderland.ac.uk @rob_jewitt 2
- 3. Overview Hoaxes Trolling Flaming RIP 3
- 4. Hoaxes: The curious case of Masal Bugduv Burroughs & Burroughs, 2012 16 year old Moldovan footballer 4
- 10. Moldova vs Lithuania November 19th 2008 1-1 Igor Bugaiov Changed to Massi Igor Bugduv 10
- 12. The Times 12
- 13. Busted 13
- 14. Qatar Dream Football League hoax 12th March 2013: The Times duped into printing a false story Mounted a defense of the story after a French website revealed it to be fake 18th March: Conceded defeat 14
- 15. Manti Te’o & Lennay Kekua hoax September 2012: Lennay Kekua died of Leukemia Except she didn’t… She didn’t even exist 15
- 16. Chain letters, myths, and spam 16
- 17. Chain letters, myths, and spam 17
- 18. Flaming 18
- 20. Flaming e-bile Shut the fuck up you fucking ugly OLD wowser cunt. You need a good stiff cock shoved down your throat if you ask me. (E-mail sent to the Australian children’s advocate Julie Gale, cited in Jackman [2011]) 20
- 21. Flaming e-bile I hope you get raped in your *sshole and eyeballs until you bleed to death. (Post on MoFo Politics [f u commenting (2011)]) 21
- 22. E-bile ‘the extravagant invective, the sexualized threats of violence, and the recreational nastiness that have come to constitute a dominant tenor of Internet discourse’ Jane, 2012: 2 22
- 23. E-bile ‘Toxic and often markedly misogynist e-bile no longer oozes only in the darkest digestive folds of the cybersphere but circulates freely through the entire body of the Internet’ Jane, 2012: 2 23
- 26. The "Beat Up Anita Sarkeesian" game 26
- 27. The internet… A place where “even the meekest of people” have become “ground-shaking titans” who “crusade and burn and unleash hell on . . . imaginary enemies” in “allcaps rants” Tin, 2012 27
- 28. Trolling ‘The culture of sadism on-line . . . has gone mainstream. The common term “lulz” … refers to the gratification of watching others suffer … Trolling is not a string of isolated incidents, but the status quo in the online world’ Larnier, 2010: 60 28
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- 39. Sean Duffy 39
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- 41. The Dark Tetrad of personality ‘online trolls are prototypical everyday sadists’ -- Erin E. Buckels, Paul D. Trapnell, Delroy L. Paulhus (2014) 41
- 43. Context collapse ‘individuals representing multiple social contexts (e.g., work, family, high school acquaintances, close friends) are ‘‘collapsed’’ into the flat category of ‘‘friends’’ or ‘‘contacts’’ on social media sites, creating … the multiple audience problem.’ Marwick and Ellison: 2012: 379 43
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- 45. Lindsay’s P45 45
- 46. Dangers Networked communication brings with it new risks Trust and authority can be hard to maintain Sites with persistent identity features (eg Facebook) can still be subject to spoofing Motivations for trolling? 46
- 47. Questions 1. Identify some well known internet hoaxes or chain letters/emails 2. Identify some online incidents in which people have been abused or victimised 3. Find some examples of 'flaming’ 4. Try and come up with a reason as to why you think people behave this way? 5. Can there be any pro-social trolling? 47
- 48. Trollface Sept 19th, 2008 MSPaint comic made by deviantArt user Whynne about the pointless nature of trolling on 4Chan’s /v/ 48
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