AMONG THE TROLLS

A much needed exploration into the world of internet trolling, from the New Yorker writer Adrian Chen. For years now, internet trolls have been thriving on sites such as 4chan, but since the election their presence has taken on a sinister new power. Chen's book will be a guide into the rise of this shady underworld, following actual people whose lives blur the line between virtual and reality.

Adrian Chen was a staff writer at The New Yorker and Gawker. His stories on Internet culture and technology have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Wired, MIT Technology Review, The Nation and New York Magazine. He is a founder of IRL Club, a live event series about the Internet, and a former contributor to the Onion News Network, the Onion's first online video series. His story for Gawker exposing a notorious Internet troll won a 2013 Mirror Award from Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

A much needed exploration into the world of internet trolling, from the New Yorker writer Adrian Chen. For years now, internet trolls have been thriving on sites such as 4chan, but since the election their presence has taken on a sinister new power. Chen's book will be a guide into the rise of this shady underworld, following actual people whose lives blur the line between virtual and reality.

Adrian Chen was a staff writer at The New Yorker and Gawker. His stories on Internet culture and technology have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Wired, MIT Technology Review, The Nation and New York Magazine. He is a founder of IRL Club, a live event series about the Internet, and a former contributor to the Onion News Network, the Onion's first online video series. His story for Gawker exposing a notorious Internet troll won a 2013 Mirror Award from Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.