D Addario's Fear Of The Word Roaring

D’Addario uses a variety of definitions and examples of trolling to help the reader understand how the word “trolling” has changed over time. Though it is not so much the change in meaning of trolling that troubles him as much as how it has influenced the way we view publications and how it impacts the millions of conversations that take place on the Internet. Being a journalist himself, D’Addario knows that this change could affect his career and the freedom of thought that he benefits from. However, he does not directly show or state his worries in his essay but instead structures his essay in a way that indirectly shows his fear of the word and what is has come to mean.

The word trolling started off as something that was considered to be a serious offense and was by no means by accident. D’Addario gives his …show more content…
However, D’Addario structures his article in a way that shows the way he feels about the topic without him actually saying so. He writes his entire essay from what seems to be the neutral standpoint of citing definitions and then explaining them. However, the order of these topics and the points of view of the quoted definitions helps the reader devise just how worried D’Addario is about the topic and just how important it is to him that he gets his point across to his audience. He finishes his essay with a couple paragraphs that seem to dissuade the reader from all the negatives of trolling and seems to end his essay on a neutral tone, “The term may move from conflating malevolent actions and pageview-baiting to simply describing the second.” (p. 15) However, that doesn’t remove all the issues involving trolling that are still in the reader’s head. D’Addario doesn’t want to end his writing in a negative tone but the goal of his essay and his worries about the future are perfectly clear in the mind of the