Schadenfreude with Bite
Richard Seymour: Trolling, 15 December 2016
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture
by Whitney Phillips.
MIT, 256 pp., £10, September 2016,978 0 262 52987 7 Show More
by Whitney Phillips.
MIT, 256 pp., £10, September 2016,
Gendertrolling: How Misogyny Went Viral
by Karla Mantilla.
Praeger, 280 pp., £32, August 2015,978 1 4408 3317 5 Show More
by Karla Mantilla.
Praeger, 280 pp., £32, August 2015,
Trolls: An Unnatural History
by John Lindow.
Reaktion, 60 pp., £9.99, August 2015,978 1 78023 565 3 Show More
by John Lindow.
Reaktion, 60 pp., £9.99, August 2015,
“... to anything other than the lulz is suspect. However, for ‘gendertrolls’, a term coined by Karla Mantilla, the objective is clamorously counter-feminist. It is to silence publicly vocal women by swarm-like harassment, misogynistic insults (such epithets as ‘cunt’ and ‘whore’), ‘doxxing’ (exposing the details of someone’s offline ... ”
