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unsafe environment and needs to be more controlled. Reading through Time magazine they have given an article about internet "Trolls" and how abusive they can be. Does this stand true, though? Information provided in their article substantiates their claim, but is their proof that this abuse is far less than what their opinionated view states? Many claims have been made throughout this piece and all seem to be one-sided. They do give a small sliver of questioning. I am not sure that this gives enough information to not sway your judgment on the matter. Joel Stein states early on in this piece that "the internet was once a geek with lofty ideals" (Stein,27). His claim is now "it has become a sociopath with Asperger's. Eager to help with technical details, but also will try to goad you into killing yourself" (Stein, 27). This is in sense giving life to the web. It is in fact not the web doing these malicious things, but people. In a society where everything we do is scrutinized, the internet is a way of freedom. We…

aren’t often needed. We have a world filled with so many egos and everyone wanting to be heard that people being to lurk around and trolling accounts. If you’re unsure what trolling is well here’s a clear definition “make a deliberately offensive or provocative online post with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them (English Oxford Living Dictionaries).” Yeah trolls, they are only here to raise hell on someone’s life. Growing up trolls where called bullies. Growing…

How to Handle a Troll Trolls a new way to express negative feelings and thoughts through social media. Everyday users post thousands of thoughts, a dark side exists, where people/trolls instigate hate between followers. Many internet users as minorities have experienced something drastically. Which is known as trolls today are just people reflecting their feelings against followers. Showing impulses of madness against life. Trolls try to make people the same way they felt at some…

Internet trolls are everywhere on any social site. Some internet trolls are good and some are bad. I read “Internet Trolls” by Lisa Selin Davis. Trolls are people who write online reviews about places they visited. They state their experience with the environment of the place and the workers. Its talks about how anyone can be trolls not just mean and anger people. There are different categories of trolls. For example, the moral crusaders, emotionally dislocated, and disinhibited are three…

Research on the Debunker After reading the article “Internet Troll” by blogger Lisa Selin Davis. I started to wonder about internet trolls. While anyone can write a blog. They are more commonly used by writers who want to reach out to a certain audience about a specific topic. In Ms. Davis case, she writes about real estates. The blog itself has the ability to allow readers to write a response about the article posted or written if the author permits it. Some responses are kind, other are…

In the article “How Trolls Are Running the Internet” that was published in the cover of Time magazine on August 19th, 2016, Joel Stein starts with a subtitle that introduces his opinion about trolls that they are a negative aspect to the society and they affect people. Stein warns us to be aware of the trolls and at the same time emphasizes that not to keep thinking about how trolls can control you. They are gonna take much more time from you than you need. You are gonna end up not using it. …

While some people are posting trolling comments as leisure, these comments can bring up racial or gender discrimination on social media and in the actual society as well. According to an article from Los Angeles Times, Patt Morrison states, “It 's hard to get demographics on who trolls are, but you note that their targets are usually women, people of color and LGBT people, and sometimes Christians and Republicans”. In addition to discrimination, the author assumes that trolling is likely to be…

For the media the term trolling represents an evocative term predominately used to describe circumstances in which an individual has been victimised or bullied online. Academic literature meanwhile typically considers trolls to be agents of disruption or breeders of hatred, though some, namely those referred to within the literature as kudos trollers, whose posts often display transgressive humour are believed to play useful and necessary roles in internet based interactions, especially in the…

virtual interaction, and ignore the real world outside. It seems that not only are we using these devices to hide from social gatherings, but the use of social media on a lone basis (in other words, those who rely on social media for their social and cultural stimulation) find it increasingly difficult to not only socialize in situations where it is called for, but they are generally more depressed and anxious in actual social situations. There is this action people do call trolling, and they…

Hate Speech and trolling In the year 2016, we live in a very progressive time. We are on the heel end of the first African American presidency, women are taking major leading roles in both the film and sports industries, and same sex marriage is now legalized and more excepted than ever within all fifty states. Everything on the surface seems to be on the right track for America’s social progression. Even though everything seems fine and dandy on the surface there is a disturbing trend…