I Am A Troll

Author : Swati Chaturvedi
Publisher : Juggernaut Books
ISBN 13 : 9386228092
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am a Troll written by Swati Chaturvedi and published by Juggernaut Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian social media is awash with right-wing trolls who incite online communal tension and abuse anyone who questions them. But who are they? How are they organized? In this explosive investigation, conducted over two years, Swati Chaturvedi finally lifts the veil over this murky subject

Author : Bill Peet
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395539682
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jethro and Joel Were a Troll written by Bill Peet and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1987 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jethro and Joel, a two-headed troll, goes on a rampage through the countryside.

Author : Ármann Jakobsson
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1947447009
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Troll Inside You written by Ármann Jakobsson and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do medieval Icelanders mean when they say "troll"? What did they see when they saw a troll? What did the troll signify to them? And why did they see them? The principal subject of this book is the Norse idea of the troll, which the author uses to engage with the larger topic of paranormal experiences in the medieval North. The texts under study are from 13th-, 14th-, and 15th-century Iceland. The focus of the book is on the ways in which paranormal experiences are related and defined in these texts and how those definitions have framed and continue to frame scholarly interpretations of the paranormal. The book is partitioned into numerous brief chapters, each with its own theme. In each case the author is not least concerned with how the paranormal functions within medieval society and in the minds of the individuals who encounter and experience it and go on to narrate these experiences through intermediaries. The author connects the paranormal encounter closely with fears and these fears are intertwined with various aspects of the human experience including gender, family ties, and death. The Troll Inside You hovers over the boundaries of scholarship and literature. Its aim is to prick and provoke but above all to challenge its audience to reconsider some of their preconceived ideas about the medieval past.

Author : Amanda Marcotte
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510737464
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Troll Nation written by Amanda Marcotte and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Amanda Marcotte drains the swamp and reveals a Republican Party hijacked by grifters and frauds.” ?David Daley The election of Donald Trump in 2016, like most of his campaign, came as a shock to many Americans. How could a man so lacking in capacity, so void of any intellectual heft, become the president of the United States? How did Trump, a man with no detectable personal qualities outside of resentment and the will to dominate, appeal to millions of Americans and win the highest office in the land? The American right has spent decades turning away from reasoned discourse toward a rhetoric of pure resentment—it’s this shift that laid the groundwork for Trump’s ascendency. In Troll Nation, journalist Amanda Marcotte outlines how Trump was the inevitable result of American conservatism’s degradation into an ideology of blind resentment. For years now, the purpose of right wing media, particularly Fox News, has not been to argue for traditional conservative ideals, such as small government or even family values, so much as to stoke bitterness and paranoia in its audience. Traditionalist white people have lost control over the culture, and they know it, and the only option they feel they have left is to rage at a broad swath of supposed enemies ? journalists, activists, feminists, city dwellers, college professors ? that they blame for stealing “their” country from them. Conservative pundits, politicians, and activists have abandoned any hope of winning the argument through reasoned discourse, and instead have adopted a series of bad faith claims, conspiracy theories, and culture war hysterics. Decades of these antics created a conservative voting base that was ready to elect a mindless bully like Donald Trump.

Author : Celia Jerome
Publisher : Untreed Reads
ISBN 13 : 1611879043
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trolls in the Hamptons written by Celia Jerome and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willow Tate is a graphic novelist who earns just enough money at her craft to keep he rent-controlled Manhattan apartment and still put food in the refrigerator. Then she decides to write about a troll who’s a superhero — and one suddenly appears, causing mayhem in Manhattan. The odd thing is that nobody except Willow can actually see the stony red giant. Willy thinks she’s going crazy just like her grandmother did, until she meets handsome, sophisticated, and oh-so-British Agent Grant from the Department of Unexplained Events. According to him, Willy has managed to break ages-old cosmic laws that could destroy the world as we know it. Now she has to help him save the planet, rescue a little boy, and find a murdering kidnapper who wants to use the power of a small village in the Hamptons to become master of the universe. Along the way, Willy discovers that trolls don’t deserve their bad reputation, that she’s not the only person in the town of Paumanok Harbor with special talents, and that magic and true love really do exist.

Author : David Sinden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416996699
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bang Goes a Troll written by David Sinden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's A Troll Hunt! When a messenger bat arrives at the RSPCB, boy-werewolf Ulf receives a warning that beasts are in trouble in the wild. Unaware of the danger he is facing, Ulf soon uncovers foul play: A rare colony of trolls is being smoked out from their caves to be used as game in an evil beast-hunting preserve. It's up to Ulf to save the day!

Author : Whitney Phillips
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262028948
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things written by Whitney Phillips and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internet trolls live to upset as many people as possible, using all the technical and psychological tools at their disposal. They gleefully whip the media into a frenzy over a fake teen drug crisis; they post offensive messages on Facebook memorial pages, traumatizing grief-stricken friends and family; they use unabashedly racist language and images. They take pleasure in ruining a complete stranger's day and find amusement in their victim's anguish. In short, trolling is the obstacle to a kinder, gentler Internet. To quote a famous Internet meme, trolling is why we can't have nice things online. Or at least that's what we have been led to believe. In this provocative book, Whitney Phillips argues that trolling, widely condemned as obscene and deviant, actually fits comfortably within the contemporary media landscape. Trolling may be obscene, but, Phillips argues, it isn't all that deviant. Trolls' actions are born of and fueled by culturally sanctioned impulses -- which are just as damaging as the trolls' most disruptive behaviors. Phillips describes, for example, the relationship between trolling and sensationalist corporate media -- pointing out that for trolls, exploitation is a leisure activity; for media, it's a business strategy. She shows how trolls, "the grimacing poster children for a socially networked world," align with social media. And she documents how trolls, in addition to parroting media tropes, also offer a grotesque pantomime of dominant cultural tropes, including gendered notions of dominance and success and an ideology of entitlement. We don't just have a trolling problem, Phillips argues; we have a culture problem. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things isn't only about trolls; it's about a culture in which trolls thrive.

Author : Wesley Metcalfe
Publisher : Meze Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781910863855
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amazing Troll-man written by Wesley Metcalfe and published by Meze Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amazing Troll-Man is a collection of hilarious exchanges between one man with a mission to make us laugh and unsuspecting Facebook users with petty complaints to air. Wesley Metcalfe, aka The Amazing Troll-Man, has a combined following of over 300k across social media thanks to his unique brand of comedy, spoofing companies' customer service accounts with side-splitting results!

Author : No Author
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9353028388
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India Misinformed written by No Author and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The propaganda of misinformation and hoaxes disseminated through print, graphics, and social media has altered the social landscape of this nation. It has led to multiple cases of lynching, mob violence, defamation and riots, and continues to pose a serious threat to Indian democracy. India Misinformed: The True Story, written by the team of Alt News, a fact-checking website that debunks fake information - and edited by Pratik Sinha, Dr Sumaiya Shaikh and Arjun Sidharth - identifies the purveyors of fabricated news, exposes the propaganda machinery and familiarizes readers with techniques to detect these menacing stories.Was Jawaharlal Nehru anti-Hindu? Was Narendra Modi declared one of the most corrupt prime ministers in the world? Is Sonia Gandhi the fourth richest woman in the world? Did Rahul Gandhi register as a non-Hindu at the Somnath Temple? With photographs to establish its claims, India Misinformed: The True Story presents the real picture.

Author : Rohit Chopra
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9353029589
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virtual Hindu Rashtra written by Rohit Chopra and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From websites devoted to battling a 'Left-liberal' media ecosystem to the formidable internet army of Hindu Right volunteers, from online narratives of Hindu valour to Narendra Modi's impeccably-managed social media presence, new media is an integral part of present-day Hindu nationalism.The Virtual Hindu Rashtra examines the relationship of Hindu nationalism and new media across a range of internet spaces, including Twitter trends in support of the Bharatiya Janata Party's government policies, Facebook pages dedicated to the cultural project of establishing a Hindu state, and WhatsApp groups circulating jokes about Modi's critics. Situating online Hindu nationalism in a historical context, this book analyses the movement with respect to national and global political trends, such as the rise of authoritarian political personalities worldwide and the phenomenon of fake news. The book concludes with a reflection on the implications of the relationship of Hindu nationalism and new media for democracy in India.