Online Trolling and Its Perpetrators

Online trolling and other deviant behaviors have always affected online communities. As online trolling becomes widely spread, myriad questions are raised, including:

• Who is a troll and why do trolls troll?
• What are the enabling factors of online trolling?
• How do members and administrators of online communities detect, interpret, and react to trolling? How can online trolling be handled effectively?
• What is the impact of the socio-cultural and technological environments on online trolling?
• What motivates trolling?

The book answers these questions and includes the following focuses:

• Hard-core trolls and light trolls
• Gender, trolling, and anti-social behavior online
• Perception of trolling
• Collaborative trolling
• Ideological trolls
• Trolling around the globe