Examining the Concepts, Issues, and Implications of Internet Trolling

Examining the Concepts, Issues, and Implications of Internet Trolling

Jonathan Bishop

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 368

ISBN13: 9781466628038|ISBN10: 1466628030|EISBN13: 9781466628045

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2803-8

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Examining the Concepts, Issues, and Implications of Internet Trolling provides current research on the technical approaches as well as more social and behavioral involvements for gaining a better understanding of internet trolling. This book is useful to researchers, students and practitioners interested in building a share meaning for online community users.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Chapters

Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Internet Trolling

Chapter 1

Ethical Behaviour in Technology-Mediated Communication (pages 1-9)

Sutirtha Chatterjee

In this information age, serious concerns with unethical behaviour in information technology (e.g., software piracy, deception, plagiarism, etc.) have cast doubts on the claims of the unmitigated success of rapid adoption of...

Chapter 2

Codes of Ethics in Discussion Forums (pages 10-18)

Cãlin Gurãu

The development of the World Wide Web has created new opportunities for interpersonal interaction. The Internet allows one-to-one (e-mail), one-to-many (Websites, e-mail lists) or many-to-many (online discussion forums) interaction...

Chapter 3

Privacy and Security for Virtual Communities and Social Networks (pages 19-31)

Georgios Michaelides, Gábor Hosszú

The importance of the virtual communities’ privacy and security problems comes into prominence by the rapid development of online social networks. This article presents the multiple threats currently plaguing the virtual world...

Chapter 4

Cyber Stalking: A Challenge for Web Security (pages 32-42)

Alok Mishra, Deepti Mishra

Cyber stalking is a relatively new kind of cyber terrorism crime. Although it often receives a lower priority then cyber terrorism it is an important global issue. Due to new technologies, it is striking in different forms. Due to...

Psychological and Wellbeing Issues in Internet Trolling

Chapter 5

Increasing Capital Revenue in Social Networking Communities: Building Social and Economic Relationships through Avatars and Characters (pages 44-61)

Jonathan Bishop

The rise of online communities in Internet environments has set in motion an unprecedented shift in power from vendors of goods and services to the customers who buy them, with those vendors who understand this transfer of power and...

Chapter 6

Moving from Cyber-Bullying to Cyber-Kindness: What do Students, Educators and Parents Say? (pages 62-83)

Wanda Cassidy, Karen Brown, Margaret Jackson

The purpose of this chapter is to explore cyber-bullying from three different, but interrelated, perspectives: students, educators and parents. The authors also explore the opposite spectrum of online behaviour - that of...

Chapter 7

Online Empathy (pages 84-87)

Niki Lambropoulos

Scientific research on empathy started in the early 20th century. Only in 1992 did the development of cognitive neuroscience help di Pellegrino, Fadiga, Fogassi, Gallese and Rizzolatti to identify the mirror neurons related to...

Chapter 8

Politeness as a Social Computing Requirement (pages 88-104)

Brian Whitworth, Tong Liu

This chapter describes how social politeness is relevant to computer system design. As the Internet becomes more social, computers now mediate social interactions, act as social agents, and serve as information assistants. To succeed...

Trust and Participation Issues in Web 2.0 Systems at Risk of Internet Trolling

Chapter 9

The Psychology of Trolling and Lurking: The Role of Defriending and Gamification for Increasing Participation in Online Communities Using Seductive Narratives (pages 106-123)

Jonathan Bishop

The rise of social networking services have furthered the proliferation of online communities, transferring the power of controlling access to content from often one person who operates a system (sysop), which they would normally...

Chapter 10

Negotiating Meaning in a Blog-Based Community: Addressing Unique, Shared, and Community Problems (pages 124-145)

Vanessa Paz Dennen

This chapter addresses how members of a blog-based community share problems and support each other in the problem solving process, both sharing knowledge and offering support. Problems are divided into three categories, unique...

Chapter 11

Social Media (Web 2.0) and Crisis Information: Case Study Gaza 2008-09 (pages 146-166)

Miranda Dandoulaki, Matina Halkia

Social media technologies such as blogs, social networking sites, microblogs, instant messaging, wikis, widgets, social bookmarking, image/video sharing, virtual worlds, and internet forums, have been identified to have played a role...

Chapter 12

A Survey of Trust Use and Modeling in Real Online Systems (pages 167-196)

Paolo Massa

This chapter discusses the concept of trust and how trust is used and modeled in online systems currently available on the Web or on the Internet. It starts by describing the concept of information overload and introducing trust as a...

Chapter 13

The Anonymity of the Internet: A Problem for E-Commerce and a “Modified” Hobbesian Solution (pages 197-208)

Eric M. Rovie

Commerce performed electronically using the Internet (e-commerce) faces a unique and difficult problem, the anonymity of the Internet. Because the parties are not in physical proximity to one another, there are limited avenues for...

Possible Solutions for Dealing with Internet Trolling

Chapter 14

Online Behavior Modeling: An Effective and Affordable Software Training Method (pages 210-225)

Charlie C. Chen, Terry Ryan, Lorne Olfman

Organizations need effective and affordable software training. In face-to-face settings, behavior modeling is an effective, but expensive, training method. Can behavior modeling be employed effectively, and more affordably, for...

Chapter 15

A Proposed Framework for Designing Sustainable Communities for Knowledge Management Systems (pages 226-245)

Lakshmi Goel, Elham Mousavidin

Despite considerable academic and practitioner interest in knowledge management, success of knowledge management systems is elusive. This chapter provides a framework which suggests that KM success can be achieved by designing...

Chapter 16

The Retaliatory Feedback Problem: Evidence from eBay and a Proposed Solution (pages 246-253)

Ross A. Malaga

Online auctions are an increasingly popular avenue for completing electronic transactions. Many online auction sites use some type of reputation (feedback) system—where parties to a transaction can rate each other. However...

Chapter 17

Multiagents System Applied on a Cyberbullying Model for a Social Network (pages 254-278)

Carlos Alberto Ochoa Ortiz-Zezzatti, Julio Cesar Ponce Gallegos, José Alberto Hernández Aguilar, Felipe Padilla Diaz

The contribution of this chapter is to present a novel approach to explain the performance of a novel Cyberbullying model applied on a Social Network using Multiagents to improve the understanding of this social behavior. This...

Chapter 18

Trust Modeling and Management: From Social Trust to Digital Trust (pages 279-303)

Zheng Yan, Silke Holtmanns

This chapter introduces trust modeling and trust management as a means of managing trust in digital systems. Transforming from a social concept of trust to a digital concept, trust modeling and management help in designing and...

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