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From the abstract: > We lack explanations of why people engage in online harassment beyond simple bias or dislike. > Drawing from examples of networked harass
by aliasEli 5y ago
From the abstract:
> We lack explanations of why people engage in online harassment beyond simple bias or dislike.
> Drawing from examples of networked harassment taken from qualitative interviews with people who have experienced harassment (n = 28) and Trust & Safety workers at social platforms (n = 9)
If you are really interested in why people engage in this behavior you should interview the harassers and not their victims.
- jfengel 5y agoThey'd like to. From the paper: One might ask why I interviewed people who experienced online harassment when attempting to determine motivations for harassment. Extensive efforts to recruit people who identified as perpetrators of harassment, who had been accused of harassment, or even who admitted to having engaged in online conflict, were unsuccessful.