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Abstract
This study compares the effectiveness of different trolling strategies in two online contexts: politically oriented forums that address issues like global warming, and interest-based forums that deal with peo- ple’s personal interests. Based on previous research, we consider trolling as context-bound and suggest that relevance theory and common ground- ing theory can explain why people may attend and react to certain types of troll posts in one forum, but pay scant attention to them in another. We postulate two hypotheses on how successful (i.e., disrup- tive) trolling varies according to context: that trolls’ messaging strate- gies appear in different frequencies in political and interest forums (H1), and that context-matching strategies also produce longer futile conver- sations (H2). Using Hardaker’s categorization of trolling strategies on a covert–overt continuum, our statistical analysis on a dataset of 49 online conversations verified H1: in political forums covert strategies were more common than overt ones; in interest forums the opposite was the case. Regarding H2 our results were inconclusive. However, the results moti- vate further research on this phenomenon with larger datasets.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Disinformation in Open Online Media |
Editors | Max van Duijn, Mike Preuss, Viktoria Spaiser , Frank Takes , Suzan Verberne |
Number of pages | 14 |
Place of Publication | Cham |
Publisher | Springer |
Publication date | 2020 |
Pages | 191–204 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-030-61840-7 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-030-61841-4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
MoE publication type | A4 Article in conference proceedings |
Event | Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media - Leiden, Netherlands Duration: 26 Oct 2020 → 27 Nov 2020 Conference number: 2 https://2020.misdoom.org/ |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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Publisher | Springer |
Volume | 12259 |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
Fields of Science
- 113 Computer and information sciences
Projects
- 1 Finished
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Automated trolling and fake news generation in future social media: Computational and empirical investigations of the threat and its implications
Salovaara, A. (Project manager), Vepsäläinen, H. (Participant), Zafar, B. (Participant), Paakki, H. (Participant) & Ukkonen, A. (Project manager)
01/01/2019 → 31/12/2022
Project: Research project
Activities
- 1 Invited talk
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Automaatio ja trollaaminen sosiaalisen median keskusteluiden manipulaatiossa
Paakki, H. (Speaker)
26 Feb 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk