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9 - Trolling in the Deep

Managing Transgressive Content on Online Platforms as a Commons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2021

By
Julien Gradoz  and
Raphaël Raux
Edited by
Erwin Dekker  and
Pavel Kuchař
Erwin Dekker
Affiliation:
Mercatus Center, George Mason University, Virginia
Pavel Kuchař
Affiliation:
King's College London
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Summary

In this chapter, we introduce the notion of “transgression space” to describe the structure of governance of websites on which the community is characterized by the strong presence of trolls. Trolls are defined as users who constantly challenge the rules of websites they browse through, namely by posting transgressive content. The transgression space corresponds in this perspective to the arena of interactions in such communities. We demonstrate through a case study on the ``BlaBla 18-25’’ forum of jeuxvideo.com that the governance of these transgression spaces can be analysed through the Governing Knowledge Commons framework, allowing us to generalize this notion for other case studies.

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TransgressionTrollingOnline platformsFree speechGovernance
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Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons , pp. 217 - 237
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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