HeyLookItsMe
12-15-2011, 02:52 PM
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Why People Troll Dead Kids on Facebook
[/URL]Internet trolls! Everyone hates them. But are they actually good for something? A new academic paper argues the worst sort of trolling illuminates harsh truths about social networking, the internet, and the mainstream media.
For her [URL="http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/3168/3115"]paper published (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/7/2011/12/d4ede883fa0904cb8af52a317bd45ab7.jpg) in this month's issue of the online journal First Monday, "Loling at tragedy: Facebook trolls, memorial pages and resistance to grief online" University of Oregon Ph.D. student Whitney Philips embedded herself in a loose network of Facebook trolls with names like Ruthless, Frank Bagadonuts, and Pro Fessor. Their specialty is trolling memorial pages set up to honor young people tragically killed, which Phillips calls "RIP trolling."...
RIP Trolling is one of the most distasteful forms of trolling, a fixture of troll hive 4chan, and has thus become one of the most publicized. After every high profile tragedy (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053578/Sick-internet-trolls-mock-Georgia-Varley-dies-trying-board-train-Liverpool-Station.html), a panic about the anonymous hordes viciously trolling the memorial pages of the victims invariably hits (http://www.abc4.com/content/news/top_stories/story/Trolls-take-over-Facebook-memorial-page/gAoNL4FWYUKy7JGbatryOg.cspx) the media. The most infamous RIP troll is Sean Duffy, the Englishman jailed (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-14894576) for posting messages like "Help me mummy, It's hot in Hell" on a dead girls' page—on Mother's day.
But some of these trolls offer an interesting justification for their anti-social behavior. Phillips focuses on a guy who goes by the handle "Paulie Socash." Paulie says he and his crew sow chaos on public Facebook memorial pages for gay kids who have committed suicide because the collective mourning by people who have never met the kids is "tacky." "This isn't grief," Paulie tells Phillips, "This is boredom and a pathological need for attention masquerading as grief."....
To read the rest CLICK (http://gawker.com/5868503/why-people-troll-dead-kids-on-facebook?tag=facebook)
Why People Troll Dead Kids on Facebook
[/URL]Internet trolls! Everyone hates them. But are they actually good for something? A new academic paper argues the worst sort of trolling illuminates harsh truths about social networking, the internet, and the mainstream media.
For her [URL="http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/3168/3115"]paper published (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/7/2011/12/d4ede883fa0904cb8af52a317bd45ab7.jpg) in this month's issue of the online journal First Monday, "Loling at tragedy: Facebook trolls, memorial pages and resistance to grief online" University of Oregon Ph.D. student Whitney Philips embedded herself in a loose network of Facebook trolls with names like Ruthless, Frank Bagadonuts, and Pro Fessor. Their specialty is trolling memorial pages set up to honor young people tragically killed, which Phillips calls "RIP trolling."...
RIP Trolling is one of the most distasteful forms of trolling, a fixture of troll hive 4chan, and has thus become one of the most publicized. After every high profile tragedy (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053578/Sick-internet-trolls-mock-Georgia-Varley-dies-trying-board-train-Liverpool-Station.html), a panic about the anonymous hordes viciously trolling the memorial pages of the victims invariably hits (http://www.abc4.com/content/news/top_stories/story/Trolls-take-over-Facebook-memorial-page/gAoNL4FWYUKy7JGbatryOg.cspx) the media. The most infamous RIP troll is Sean Duffy, the Englishman jailed (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-14894576) for posting messages like "Help me mummy, It's hot in Hell" on a dead girls' page—on Mother's day.
But some of these trolls offer an interesting justification for their anti-social behavior. Phillips focuses on a guy who goes by the handle "Paulie Socash." Paulie says he and his crew sow chaos on public Facebook memorial pages for gay kids who have committed suicide because the collective mourning by people who have never met the kids is "tacky." "This isn't grief," Paulie tells Phillips, "This is boredom and a pathological need for attention masquerading as grief."....
To read the rest CLICK (http://gawker.com/5868503/why-people-troll-dead-kids-on-facebook?tag=facebook)