This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The Origins, Evolution and Cultural Embeddedness of Online Trolling
Ethnographic in approach, this dissertation examines trolling, an online subculture devoted to meme creation and social disruption. Rather than framing trolling behaviors as fundamentally aberrant, I argue that trolls are agents of cultural digestion; they scour the landscape, repurpose the most exp...
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University of Oregon
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12528 |