FCJ-166 ‘Change name to No One. Like people’s status’ Facebook Trolling and Managing Online Personas
Tero Karppi · The Fibreculture Journal · 2013
In this article I focus on both the actual operations and actions of trolling and how trolls are or are not defined by Facebook’s various discourse networks from FAQs to Risk Factor documents and surrounding newspaper articles. The empirical cases are discussed in the context of affect theory and Gabriel Tarde’s social theory which has been recently adapted to the analysis of network culture by Tony Sampson. These theoretical thresholds are used to address the operations of human and non-human actors involved in Facebook user participation, which Facebook trolling is part of.