“You’re trolling because…” – A Corpus-based Study of Perceived Trolling and Motive Attribution in the Comment Threads of Three British Political Blogs

Marton Petyko

doi:10.5281/zenodo.1040875

“You’re trolling because…” – A Corpus-based Study of Perceived Trolling and Motive Attribution in the Comment Threads of Three British Political Blogs

Marton Petyko

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This paper investigates the linguistically marked motives that participants attribute to those they call trolls in 991 comment threads of three British political blogs. The study is concerned with how these motives affect the discursive construction of trolling and trolls.
Another goal of the paper is to examine whether the mainly emotional motives ascribed to trolls in the academic literature correspond with those that the participants attribute to the alleged trolls in the analysed threads. The paper identifies five broad motives ascribed to trolls: emotional/mental health-related/social reasons, financial gain, political beliefs, being employed by a political body, and unspecified political affiliation. It also points out that depending on these motives, trolling and trolls are constructed in various ways.
Finally, the study argues that participants attribute motives to trolls not only to explain their behaviour but also to insult them.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 5th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (cmccorpora17)
Pages	56-60
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1040875
Publication status	Published - 2 Nov 2017
Event	5th Conference on CMC and SocialMedia Corpora for the Humanities (cmccorpora17) - Bolzano, Italy Duration: 3 Oct 2017 → 4 Oct 2017

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Conference	5th Conference on CMC and SocialMedia Corpora for the Humanities (cmccorpora17)
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Bolzano
Period	3/10/17 → 4/10/17

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Petyko, M 2017, “You’re trolling because…” – A Corpus-based Study of Perceived Trolling and Motive Attribution in the Comment Threads of Three British Political Blogs. in Proceedings of the 5th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (cmccorpora17). pp. 56-60, 5th Conference on CMC and SocialMedia Corpora for the Humanities (cmccorpora17), Bolzano, Italy, 3/10/17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1040875

“You’re trolling because…” – A Corpus-based Study of Perceived Trolling and Motive Attribution in the Comment Threads of Three British Political Blogs. / Petyko, Marton.
Proceedings of the 5th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (cmccorpora17). 2017. p. 56-60.

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