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International Peer Reviewed “Fibreculture Journal” Seeks Submissions About The Politics of Trolling

August 7, 2012 by CiviliNation

The Fibreculture Journal is requesting abstracts for a special issue on “The Politics of Trolling and the Negative Space of the Internet” to be published in April/May 2013.

They are seeking papers on a range of topics, including:

  • Trolling, activism and politics
  • The persistence and ubiquity of online conflict
  • Trolling as a business model: the mainstream media and clickbait
  • Gendered aspects of trolling and incivility
  • 4chan and trolling; activism and meme factories
  • Trolling and cyberbullying
  • Complaints about trolling and the “hatred of democracy” – are complaints about trolling really an attempt to re-gentrify political debate?
  • Cultures and rituals of trolling – troll culture and the celebration of lulz
  • Trolling and “cyber-bullying”
  • The Internet and agonistic politics
  • Trolling and counterpublics
  • The grammar of trolling
  • Trolling as the glitch in social network analysis and “big data”
  • Popular culture, trolls and the democratization of politics
  • Tabloid media, professionalization of trolling and the economics of opinion
  • Trolling as cyber-bullying, internet as masochistic survivalist playground
  • The pleasures of trolling
  • Trolling the trolls
  • The art and ‘new aesthetics’ of trolling
  • The gamification of trolling

 

If you’re interested, see details here and manuscript guidelines here.

 

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Filed Under: Cybercivility Tagged With: Cyberbullying, Cybercivility

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