Don’t feed the trolls!: Managing troublemakers in magazines’ online communities

Journalism Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 547-562

  Binns, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community management; Digital editors; Online community; Trolls; Website

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016073645     PISSN: 17512786     EISSN: 17512794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2011.648988     Document Type: Article

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