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Troll hunting, inside the world of online hate and its human fallout, Ginger Gorman

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Troll hunting, inside the world of online hate and its human fallout, Ginger Gorman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Troll hunting

Responsibility statement

Ginger Gorman

Sub title

inside the world of online hate and its human fallout

Summary

In 2013, journalist Ginger Gorman was trolled online. She received scores of hateful tweets, including a death threat. A picture of Ginger heavily pregnant alongside her husband and two-and-half year old daughter appeared on a fascist website. Understandably she was terrified, but once the attack subsided, she found herself curious. Who were these trolls? And how and why did they coordinate such an attack? And how does someone fight back? Over the next five years Gorman spoke to psychologists, trolling victims, law enforcement, academics and, most importantly, the trolls themselves, embedding herself into their online communities and their psyches in ways she had never anticipated. What she discovered was both profoundly shocking and fascinating

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