FIT1057 Week 2

Trolling

• Defined as creating discord on the Internet by starting quarrels or upsetting people by posting inflammatory or off-topic messages in an online community

• Internet troll - a user who strives to enrage/annoy another user via social media

• Characteristics:

  • Flooding - non-sensical message spam

  • Profanity

  • Spam - links specifically

  • Bullying

  • Multiple IPs

  • Online vandalism

  • Inflammatory - attack on brands

Cyberstalking

• Stalking - the repeated uninvited monitoring and/or intrusion into the life and activities of a victim

Mis/Disinformation

• Disinformation is “fake news” or false, inaccurate or misleading information intended to deceive or mislead

• Misinformation is the spread of false or inaccurate information that is not deliberately created or distributed to deceive

• Why is it effective/believable?

  • Heuristics - quick approximations that are not fully rational

  • Language

  • Source

  • Visceral response

• Circular reporting - journals/newspapers reporting misinformation, another journal reporting this and spreading it, the former journal referencing the spread as evidence