Online Deception

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
David M. Markowitz ◽  
Jeffrey T. Hancock
Keyword(s):  
Online Deception

scholarly journals The Downside of the Digital Age

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Distel
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Human Memory ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Collateral Damage ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Invasion Of Privacy ◽  
The World ◽  
Permanent Memory ◽  
Online Deception

The digital revolution has advanced human society in undeniably profound ways. But not all the changes have been improvements. The collateral damage acknowledged as consequences of the Digital Age includes the emboldened threat of invasion of privacy, the development and proliferation of online deception, and the tragedies of cyberbullying and perpetual harassment, among others. And while sexting converts hormonal teenagers into self-pornographers, the world wide web’s permanent memory banks rob young and old users of the chance to erase the scarlet letters of their digital pasts. As for human memory, it has eroded as its technological supplements have become its substitutes.

“Emotional strip-mining”: Sympathy sockpuppets in online communities

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110405
Author(s):  
Devon Greyson ◽  
Kaitlin L Costello
Keyword(s):  
Online Communities ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Strip Mining ◽  
Knowledge Gap ◽  
Online Deception ◽  
Online Identities

Sympathy sockpuppets are false online identities used for purposes of extracting care work from others. While online community infiltration for nefarious purposes is a well-documented phenomenon, people may also join online communities using deceptive personas (“sockpuppet” accounts) for non-nefarious reasons, such as to gain sympathy or cultivate a sense of belonging in a group. In comparison with scamming and trolling, this more subtle form of online deception is not well understood, and to date, its impacts on individuals and communities have not been fully articulated. This knowledge gap leaves communities without guidance when managing the impacts of this sympathy sockpuppet deception. We interviewed people who had been members of online communities that discovered sympathy sockpuppets in their midst to explore and characterize the phenomenon of sympathy sockpuppetry and to provide guidance for other individuals and communities that encounter similar forms of online deception.

scholarly journals Online deception and situations conducive to the progression of non-payment fraud

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 516-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Maimon ◽  
Mateus Santos ◽  
Youngsam Park
Keyword(s):  
Online Deception

Online deception in social media

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (9) ◽  
pp. 72-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michail Tsikerdekis ◽  
Sherali Zeadally
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Online Deception

scholarly journals Panel on: Maintaining Identity in the Virtual World Virtual Fraud and Misinformation in the New Age: Revisiting Grice’s Cooperative Principle

10.28945/2731 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Wang ◽  
Xin-An (Lucian) Lu
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cooperative Principle ◽  
Conversational Implicatures ◽  
Online Deception ◽  
Use Of The Internet

Naturally, humans seek physical and psychological joy. Romance, for instance, is one of the means. People are making quick use of the Internet technology to facilitate their seeking of romantic and quasiromantic experience via “virtual reality.” In this paper we concern ourselves mainly with meaning generation and interpretation in the virtual world. With analysis of a reported case of online deception as empirical evidence, we question in the conditions and assumptions Grice based on for his theoretical proposition of the Cooperative Principle. Our research suggests that deception in online romance is hard to find out because the virtual reality does not provide sufficient conditions for generation of conversational implicatures as suggested by Grice’s Cooperative Principle.

Can Mate Choice Strategies Explain Sex Differences?

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Stieger ◽  
Tina Eichinger ◽  
Britta Honeder
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Mate Choice ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Mating Strategies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Online Harassment ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
Online Deception ◽  
Gender Switching

Online deception is a phenomenon on the Internet, facilitated by restrictions on communication channels. As communication on the Internet is largely exchanged in textual form, deception about personal data such as sex, age, and appearance can be difficult to detect. Research on online deception has been focused thus far on what deceivers lie about and what motivates them to do so. Little is known about how persons feel when they are deceived in an online environment and about whether sex differences exist in the intensity of those feelings. Furthermore, research on online deception largely lacks a theoretical basis. In the current studies, differences between the sexes with respect to their reaction to online deception about sex, age, and appearance were analyzed in a framework of sex-specific mating strategies predicted by evolutionary theory. The results of a structured online interview showed that sex-specific differences in reaction to online gender switching and appearance deception can be explained by mating strategies. Gender switching was found to be more disturbing when committed by a chat partner of the same sex than when committed by a chat partner of the opposite sex. Appearance deception was found to be more disturbing when committed by chat partners of the opposite sex. The data on age deception were not in line with the theory of mate-choice strategies. Even a second online questionnaire study could not entirely clarify the issue but did reveal interfering factors (such as online harassment, legal issues, life expectancy) that probably influence the effect driven by evolution.

Understanding the Landscape of Online Deception

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-66
Author(s):  
Hicham Hage ◽  
Esma Aïmeur ◽  
Amel Guedidi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Fake News ◽  
New Information ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Online Deception ◽  
Major Factors

While fake and distorted information has been part of our history, new information and communication technologies tremendously increased its reach and proliferation speed. Indeed, in current days, fake news has become a global issue, prompting reactions from both researchers and legislators in an attempt to solve this problem. However, fake news and misinformation are part of the larger landscape of online deception. Specifically, the purpose of this chapter is to present an overview of online deception to better frame and understand the problem of fake news. In detail, this chapter offers a brief introduction to social networking sites, highlights the major factors that render individuals more susceptible to manipulation and deception, detail common manipulation and deception techniques and how they are actively used in online attacks as well as their common countermeasures. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the double role or artificial intelligence in countering as well as creating fake news.

Online Deception Interview

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Stieger ◽  
Tina Eichinger ◽  
Britta Honeder
Keyword(s):  
Online Deception
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