The internet has created a unique vocabulary, but we've stretched some of these new words beyond their limits and "trolling" should be the first to go. For most people, "trolling" still refers to a ...

While media outlets have often used the word “trolling” to describe these kinds of comments, they’re less trolling than symbols of the decline of trolling, an art which has been soured by pointless ...

Some of the claims coming out of the Trump camp in recent weeks are laughable: that Joe Biden is the Hamburglar, that Democrats are conspiring to take away the Chick-fil-A sauces of “real” Americans, ...

Reading news online, you could be forgiven for thinking that trolling is a synonym for “doing something on the internet.” Gamergaters are “trolling” women. Edward Snowden is “trolling” the NSA.

Australia's federal government has been pushing for new "anti-trolling legislation" that would see defamation liability shift from owners of social media pages onto social media platforms as it ...

If everyone is a troll, maybe no one is. But for a word that’s tossed around so frequently, its meaning seems to evaporate into air when grasped at. Trolling is bad. Trolling provokes a reaction, ...

Vyshali Manivannan is a Ph.D. candidate in Media Studies at Rutgers University. Updated August 19, 2014, 11:45 PM Before asking for a solution to trolling, we ought to be asking what we mean by ...

The term “internet troll” is widely associated with an online commenter or discussion participant whose sole aim is to stir up havoc by deliberately posting controversial and inflammatory comments.