trolling

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  2/22/2023
  

  Drawing the Line between Assigning and Endorsing

  by Steve Mintz

  Controversies about recent books about the history and legacy of colonialism raise questions about what it means to assign – or refuse to – a book for students to read, discuss, and potentially critique, and how provocation works in the liberal model of inquiry. 

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  10/26/2021
  

  Right-Wing Trolling Didn't Start with Trump

  by Rick Perlstein

  "Owning the libs" through stunts and irony didn't start with Trump. Since World War II, getting under liberals' skin has mattered as much as policy and ideology, argues the historian of the conservative movement. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  12/8/2020
  

  When I Was Trolled, My Institution Got It Right

  by Susan M. Shaw

  As faculty work to engage the public more directly through social media and journalistic outlets, the potential increases for politically motivated trolling and outrage campaigns attacking faculty. Here's how institutions can support the intellectual freedom of their faculty without caving to outrage campaigns. 

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• SOURCE: Vice
  11/2/2020
  

  The Man Who Helped Turn 4chan Into the Internet's Racist Engine

  A look at the people who enabled the creation of a far-right sewer of racism and bigotry on the internet.