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Trolling in Online Discussions: From Provocation to Community-building

“…This pattern represents a shift away from what Kleinke (2010) terms 'propositional disagreement' (targeting what an opponent has said) and towards 'personal disagreement' (targeting the opponent personally via direct attacks on his/her face). Closely related to the pattern described above is the observation by Lewis (2005) that online discussions are frequently characterized by topic decay; the first messages in the discussion usually address the topic directly, however the thematic line of the discussion soon tends to become fragmented as participants become sidetracked into multiple dialogues with each other. All these features clearly fit the typical pattern of trolling behaviour: an initial provocation, an angry response, and ultimately the 'hijacking' of the discussion, which drifts away from its original topic and disintegrates into a series of increasingly intense personal attacks.…”

“…The metaphor is drawn from fishing; the troll places bait in the water, and hopes that the fish will bite.) The third characteristic of trolling behaviour -disruption -involves the troll's desire to 'hijack' the discussion, leading to topic decay (Lewis 2005) as the participants are sidetracked away from the original topic to become embroiled in a series of intense personal attacks. The fourth characteristic -deception -is connected with the troll's projection of a false identity for purposes of disrupting the discussion; a troll is thus defined as "a CMC user who constructs the identity of sincerely wishing to be part of the group in question […] but whose real intention(s) is/are to cause disruption or exacerbate conflict for the purposes of their own amusement" (Hardaker 2010: 237).…”

“…Marcoccia 2004;Lewis 2005;Wan-ner 2008;Angouri and Tseliga 2010;Kleinke 2010;Upadhyay 2010;NeurauterKessels 2011;Hopkinson 2012), the phenomenon of trolling has so far remained largely on the sidelines, tending to be discussed in popular media rather than in a research context. One exception is Hardaker (2010); drawing on an extensive corpus, she proposes a working definition of trolling based on four key characteristics: aggression, deception, disruption, and success.…”

Desarrollo de la competencia argumentativa en foros de discusión en línea: una propuesta constructivista

“…El desarrollo de las TIC brinda nuevos contextos y posibilidades para el desarrollo de la competencia argumentativa, escenarios que posibilitan investigar de manera integral tanto los recursos psicológicos como los comunicativos además del diseño instruccional implicados en el desarrollo de la competencia argumentativa como objeto de estudio (Clarck, Stegmann, Weinberger, Muhsin y Erkens, 2008;Rodríguez, 2004;Lewis, 2005).…”

Redressive Actions Following Commiserations in Online Discussions

“…Thus there have been numerous studies and articles dealing with politeness in respect to online communication as well (e.g. Hobbs 2003, Lewis 2005, Graham 2007, Kouper 2010, Ädel 2011, Hopkinson 2013. However, the speech act, or better to say speech event 1 , of commiserating in virtual communities has not been fully examined yet.…”