18. Flaming and trolling
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Claire Hardaker
Abstract
In the last two decades, pragmatic explorations of flaming and trolling in computer-mediated communication have gained momentum. However, although there is little doubt that “attacks, assaults and contemptuous remarks” (Jucker and Taavitsainen 2000: 73) have always been commonplace, some researchers (cf. Moor, Heuvelman and Verleur 2010; Nitin, Bansal and Kanzashi 2011) have recently argued that certain types of conflict, such as flaming and trolling are particularly native to social media. To this end, this chapter aims to provide new insights into current pragmatic research into flaming and trolling, including how these terms are defined and deployed, case studies that illuminate how these behaviors are accounted for by existing literature, and the current challenges that face these fields and their development into the future.
Abstract
In the last two decades, pragmatic explorations of flaming and trolling in computer-mediated communication have gained momentum. However, although there is little doubt that “attacks, assaults and contemptuous remarks” (Jucker and Taavitsainen 2000: 73) have always been commonplace, some researchers (cf. Moor, Heuvelman and Verleur 2010; Nitin, Bansal and Kanzashi 2011) have recently argued that certain types of conflict, such as flaming and trolling are particularly native to social media. To this end, this chapter aims to provide new insights into current pragmatic research into flaming and trolling, including how these terms are defined and deployed, case studies that illuminate how these behaviors are accounted for by existing literature, and the current challenges that face these fields and their development into the future.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Table of contents xi
- 1. Log in: Introducing the pragmatics of social media 1
- 2. Participation as user involvement 31
- 3. Participation as audience design 61
- 4. Publicness and privateness 83
- 5. Message boards 125
- 6. Blogs 151
- 7. YouTube 173
- 8. Twitter 201
- 9. Social Network Sites/Facebook 225
- 10. Discourse and organization 245
- 11. Discourse and topic 275
- 12. Discourse and cohesion 317
- 13. Discourse and cognition 345
- 14. Discourse and ideology 381
- 15. Facework and identity 407
- 16. Evaluation 435
- 17. Politeness and impoliteness 459
- 18. Flaming and trolling 493
- 19. Narration 523
- 20. Fandom 545
- 21. Getting “liked” 575
- 22. Conflictual and consensual disagreement 607
- 23. Compliments and compliment responses 633
- 24. Requesting and advice-giving 661
- About the authors 691
- Name index 699
- Subject index 721
- Preface to the handbook series v
- Acknowledgements ix
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Table of contents xi
- 1. Log in: Introducing the pragmatics of social media 1
- 2. Participation as user involvement 31
- 3. Participation as audience design 61
- 4. Publicness and privateness 83
- 5. Message boards 125
- 6. Blogs 151
- 7. YouTube 173
- 8. Twitter 201
- 9. Social Network Sites/Facebook 225
- 10. Discourse and organization 245
- 11. Discourse and topic 275
- 12. Discourse and cohesion 317
- 13. Discourse and cognition 345
- 14. Discourse and ideology 381
- 15. Facework and identity 407
- 16. Evaluation 435
- 17. Politeness and impoliteness 459
- 18. Flaming and trolling 493
- 19. Narration 523
- 20. Fandom 545
- 21. Getting “liked” 575
- 22. Conflictual and consensual disagreement 607
- 23. Compliments and compliment responses 633
- 24. Requesting and advice-giving 661
- About the authors 691
- Name index 699
- Subject index 721
- Preface to the handbook series v
- Acknowledgements ix
