Showing posts with label trolling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trolling. Show all posts

Monday, January 04, 2016

Their Pain is what got us here in the first place: that's what I learned from my troll

Here are a few items related to our Detective Fiction themes to kick off the new round on this course:

  • Free-floating hate: Jezebel and now GQ writer Lindy West talking about being massively and constantly trolled, and what happens when your troll has a change of heart and takes you inside the trolling mind.  This is a rebroadcasted segment on the always excellent This American Life (first from January 2015). 
  • Sexual assault: Propublica did a detailed investigation of an 18 year old woman who accused someone of rape, and then recanted, and then . . . 
  • World War on Drugs. From close to home, "Devils, Deals and the DEA."  A must for Chapo Guzman buffs.
Welcome back to the class where there's no clear boundary between fiction and truth