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Trolling is a complex and contested form of TFV disproportionately targeting women (UN Women, Creating safe digital spaces free of trolls, doxing and hate speech. [online]. Retrieved November 28, 2024, from https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/explainer/2023/11/creating-safe-digital-spaces-free-of-trolls-doxing-and-hate-speech , 2023; Lumsden & Morgan, Media Framing of Trolling and Online Abuse: Silencing Strategies, Symbolic Violence and Victim Blaming. Feminist Media Studies, 17(6), 926–940, 2017). This chapter critiques the UK legal definition of trolling using empirical studies whilst considering the ability of media narratives in silencing victims, in their experience of harm (Lumsden & Morgan, 2017). The research is grounded in a critical realist and zemiological analytical framework. It explores how trolling, often masked as humour (Jane, 2012; Vera-Grey, 2017), is normalised within online spaces (Doyle, 2025), contributing to cycles of gendered violence and underreporting. The chapter also examines the role of platforms like Tattle.Life in determining victim ‘deservingness’ and the challenges posed by trolling to legislation such as the Online Safety Act 2023 (Doyle, The ‘Insider’ Club of ‘Diet Culture’: What is the Role of Social Media in Creating the ‘Picture Perfect’ Based on Filtered Lifestyles? PhD Thesis, University of Sunderland. https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/18709/ , 2025). Ultimately, it argues that online rape culture, online commentary culture and trolling masked as ‘banter’ have become a normalised attribute to technology-facilitated violence(s).

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Trolling or ‘Banter’: How the Normalisation of Technology-Facilitated Violence Can Dehumanise the (Un)Deserving Victim

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    2026年

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  • Lauren Steckles-Young

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Trolling is a complex and contested form of TFV disproportionately targeting women (UN Women, Creating safe digital spaces free of trolls, doxing and hate speech. [online]. Retrieved November 28, 2024, from https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/explainer/2023/11/creating-safe-digital-spaces-free-of-trolls-doxing-and-hate-speech , 2023; Lumsden & Morgan, Media Framing of Trolling and Online Abuse: Silencing Strategies, Symbolic Violence and Victim Blaming. Feminist Media Studies, 17(6), 926–940, 2017). This chapter critiques the UK legal definition of trolling using empirical studies whilst considering the ability of media narratives in silencing victims, in their experience of harm (Lumsden & Morgan, 2017). The research is grounded in a critical realist and zemiological analytical framework. It explores how trolling, often masked as humour (Jane, 2012; Vera-Grey, 2017), is normalised within online spaces (Doyle, 2025), contributing to cycles of gendered violence and underreporting. The chapter also examines the role of platforms like Tattle.Life in determining victim ‘deservingness’ and the challenges posed by trolling to legislation such as the Online Safety Act 2023 (Doyle, The ‘Insider’ Club of ‘Diet Culture’: What is the Role of Social Media in Creating the ‘Picture Perfect’ Based on Filtered Lifestyles? PhD Thesis, University of Sunderland. https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/18709/ , 2025). Ultimately, it argues that online rape culture, online commentary culture and trolling masked as ‘banter’ have become a normalised attribute to technology-facilitated violence(s).