Will You Become the Next Troll? A Computational Mechanics Approach to the Contagion of Trolling Behavior

Trolling behavior is not simply a result of ‘bad actors’, an individual trait, or a linguistic phenomenon, but emerges from complex contagious social dynamics. This study uses formal concepts from information theory and complexity science to study it as such. The data comprised over 13 million Reddi...

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Main Authors: Qiusi Sun, Martin Hilbert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-05-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27/5/542
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