An important sidebar of virtual internet interactions
involves online deviance and trolling. These include behaviors that range from
mild mischief, to offensive language, to hacking and trolling, and to
expression of complex social problem, such as by social radicals, terrorist, or
pedophiles. Yet I can find little research that has examined online trolling in
general or the impact of gender and background on these deeds in particular.
My
research results indicate that men and women react differently to online
trolling. Their observations of the impact of trolling on online groups vary a
great deal. Always men and women identify different motivations for similar
behaviors in different communities, and they both remark that men and women
trolls differ in their behavior and motivation. What do you think?
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