A GENERATION OF TROLLS
Sunayan Bhattacharjee: Assistant Professor Centre for Print & Cyber Journalism Skills Social media, it is often said, has been able to bring democracy to our living room. Thanks to such outstanding public platforms as Twitter and Facebook, we can now deliberate and opinionate about all topics ranging from Mangalyaan to Narendra Modi’s fashion faux pas at the click of a computer button. Even the biggest optimist couldn’t have foreseen this decentralization of democracy just a couple of decades back. However, cyber pundits haven’t really thrown much light to a rather enigmatic and negative side effect of social media. Trolling, as it is famously or infamously known, has been increasing at the pace of knots over the past half a decade. Some apparently educated yet behaviourally primitive netizens have been leaving behind a trail of vitriol and venom across the universal platform. Even the most innocuous tweet, post or comment is being attacked on flimsy ground by a grou...