Anyone, anywhere who wants to understand how platforms, power dynamics, and current events influence and are influenced by online trolling should read this book. Thoughtful analysis of cases in the US, China, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza explains the role of political trolling in ongoing conflicts.

Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, USA

This timely book offers a broad and empirically grounded account of online political trolling as a global and rapidly evolving phenomenon. Combining sociotechnical analysis with empirical studies across a range of platforms and national contexts, it shows how political trolling takes different forms in relation to platform affordances and sociocultural settings, drawing on cases from both the Global North and the Global South.

Shengnan Yang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada