- Opinion | Trolling Democracy - The New York Times
assumed power in January, the official White House social media accounts have taken on a sinister style of posting Opinion Trolling Democracy Share full article By Nathan Taylor Pemberton
- Trolling Democracy | How Trolls Distort Digital Discourse | J . . .
By leveraging theoretical insights, empirical evidence from new surveys, and innovative experiments, J Benjamin Taylor and Sean Richey offers a comprehensive understanding of trolling's effect on the public sphere and its implications for democratic processes
- Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social . . .
Synthesizing media ecology with historical materialism, he explores the disturbing rise of political unreason in the form of mass trolling and sheds light on the proliferation of disinformation, conspiracy theory, “cancel culture,” and digital violence
- Twitter trolls are actually hurting democracy
In fact, many politicians do try to launch discussions with the public on Twitter But when they do, they’re attacked in return — and risk becoming the target of trolling campaigns Such campaigns can require significant damage control and can irreparably harm candidates’ public images
- Trolling Is Now Mainstream Political Discourse | WIRED
Trolling became a mainstream form, if not the mainstream form of political discourse Fueled by networked communication technologies, for better and for worse, everyone has a voice
- The McCarthy Holdouts Are Trolling Democracy | TIME
When the 118th Congress attempted to get underway on Tuesday, the presumptive Speaker-in-waiting, Rep Kevin McCarthy of California, half-joked to reporters that he was used to spending time on
- Will Strategic Trolling Affect Digital Participatory Democracy?
Proof that digital participatory democracy is becoming a serious component of the wider democratic process So far that interference does not seem to happen at a large scale But when it happens, the most important problem faced by the growing industry — namely, participation — will likely take a hit it can ill afford
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