Trolling

24 Maio 2017, 12:00 • David Alan Prescott

Analysis of a newspaper article about trolling (in this case about personal attacks on the parents of Madeleine McCann). Demonstration of how so many people believe that writing insults, body shaming and threatening other people on the various platforms on the Internet is not the same as doing so in normal social interaction. Many people seem to believe that it is possible to write in "private" on a network that is openly available to anyone on the planet (and on the International Space Station). While it is illegal to open another person's mail, all platform terms and conditions give away the right to privacy.