{"544211":{"#nid":"544211","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How Gaming Helped Launch the Attack of the Internet Trolls","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u201c\u003C\/em\u003EHow Gaming helped Launch the Attack of the Internet Trolls\u003Cem\u003E\u201d\u003C\/em\u003E quotes School of Literature, Media, and Communication professor, Ian Bogost, Ph.D.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrom \u003Cem\u003EThe New York Times\u003C\/em\u003E article:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETrolling can refer to a range of online troublemaking, including posting provocative comments and purposely marring others\u2019 online experience, and it can include attacks on people as much as on software. The practice of ruining things for others, originally known as griefing in the online gaming world, has become a sadly abundant element of internet life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFolks who are griefing or trolling feel like they are in a secondary universe that isn\u2019t the same as the real world,\u201d [Bogost] said. \u201cIt was a \u2018safe space\u2019 for them, in which they did horrible things.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead the full article at \u003Cem\u003EThe New York Times\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/09\/technology\/how-gaming-helped-launch-the-attack-of-the-internet-trolls.html\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"32716","created_gmt":"2016-06-13 15:31:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:14","author":"Hayden Russell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Extension of Self","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/09\/technology\/how-gaming-helped-launch-the-attack-of-the-internet-trolls.html","dateline":{"date":"2016-06-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-06-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"169193","name":"griefing"},{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"},{"id":"2449","name":"video games"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}