(Університет імені Альфреда Нобеля, 2017) Kuriata, Y.; Kasatkina-Kubyshkina, O.
The phenomenon of Internet trolling has been considered in the article. The definition «Internet
troll» has been drawn out and the history of the notion has been traced. Such aspects as aggression, success, disruption, and deception have been analysed in the context of the given question. Means of verbal aggression have been defined: character attacks, competence attacks, self-concept attacks, intentionally vague or ambiguous yet implicit threats, insults, malediction, scolding, teasing, mockery, verbal use of
force, profanity, verbal abuse.