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Troll hunting: inside the disturbing world of online hate

By Gorman , Ginger , Giner;Gorman

Book information

Publisher
Hardie Grant Books
Year
2019
ISBN
9781743794357, 1743794355
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
621 kB (636024 bytes)
Pages
xii, 292 pages ; 24 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Ginger;Women journalists -- Crimes against -- AustInternet;Online trolling;Women journalists--Crimes

Description

In 2013, journalist Ginger Gorman was trolled online. She received scores of hateful tweets, including a death threat. A picture of Ginger heavily pregnant alongside her husband and two-and-half year old daughter appeared on a fascist website. Understandably she was terrified, but once the attack subsided, she found herself curious. Who were these trolls? And how and why did they coordinate such an attack? And how does someone fight back? Over the next five years Gorman spoke to psychologists, trolling victims, law enforcement, academics and, most importantly, the trolls themselves, embedding herself into their online communities and their psyches in ways she had never anticipated. What she discovered was both profoundly shocking and fascinating.

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