Online Political Trolling
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:1st Oct '26
£80.00
This title is due to be published on 1st October, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This book takes a sociotechnical approach to examine how demographics and ideology contribute to online trolling considering the affordances of various social media platforms.
This book takes a sociotechnical approach to examine how demographics and ideology contribute to online trolling considering the affordances of various social media platforms.
Politically-motivated trolling is an integral part of online interaction on social media, as individuals with social and political agendas post and live stream to provoke and mobilize other online users. From foreign interference in democratic processes as well as the use of bots and troll farms, to less organized forms of trolling by individuals, political trolling is everywhere. Trolling continues to advance as online platforms and social media are fast changing, and sociotechnical affordances are evolving to include video, individualized recommendations algorithms, AI-enabled deception, and deepfake manipulations.
Online political trolling is affecting public opinion, interfering with election results, and threatening our democracies. As the public adopts technological advances, related sociotechnical affordances enable new forms of trolling that exacerbate the societal impact of online trolling.
Anyone, anywhere who wants to understand how platforms, power dynamics, and current events influence and are influenced by online trolling should read this book. Thoughtful analysis of cases in the US, China, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza explains the role of political trolling in ongoing conflicts. -- Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, USA
This timely book offers a broad and empirically grounded account of online political trolling as a global and rapidly evolving phenomenon. Combining sociotechnical analysis with empirical studies across a range of platforms and national contexts, it shows how political trolling takes different forms in relation to platform affordances and sociocultural settings, drawing on cases from both the Global North and the Global South. -- Shengnan Yang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada
ISBN: 9798881805814
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192 pages