The Language of Abuse - Seven Forms of Antisocial Behaviour

Although the text is informative, it's really engaging and interesting. It's formality means it is straight to the point and a good source of information, but remains objective. The article is about a woman named Dr Claire Hardaker who is known for writing a piece to the Guardian about twitter troll scandals.

On her website Hardaker says ‘I primarily research aggression, deception, and manipulation in computer-mediated communication (CMC), including phenomena such as flaming, trolling, cyberbullying, and online grooming. I tend to take a forensic linguistics approach, based on a corpus linguistic methodology, but due to the multidisciplinary nature of my research, I also inevitably branch out into areas such as psychology, law, and computer science.’

In this article, she offers a brief introduction to some of the kinds of language behaviour that cause problems on Twitter and signals what it is about this new kind of communication that makes it particularly prone to inappropriate linguistic behaviour.

This article is worth reading because it is very informative. It contains interesting statistics and information on the differences between cyberbullying and trolling, and tells us how to identify if somebody is breaking the law by abusing us online.