Examining the Language of Carders

Corporate Hacking and Technology-Driven Crime ◽

10.4018/978-1-61692-805-6.ch007 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 127-143

Author(s):

Thomas J. Holt

Keyword(s):

Law Enforcement ◽

Qualitative Analysis ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Sensitive Information ◽

The Social ◽

Web Forums ◽

New Form ◽

Insight Into

The threat posed by a new form of cybercrime called carding--or the illegal acquisition, sale, and exchange of sensitive information--has increased in recent years. Few researchers, however, have considered the social dynamics driving this behavior. This chapter explores the argot, or language, used by carders through a qualitative analysis of 300 threads from six web forums run by and for data thieves. The terms used to convey knowledge about the information and services sold are explored in this chapter. In addition, the hierarchy and status of actors within carding communities are examined to understand how language shapes the social dynamics of the market. The findings provide insight into this emerging form of cybercrime, and the values driving carders’ behavior. Policy implications for law enforcement intervention are also discussed.

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Fishing for whales: a segmentation model for social casinos

International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences ◽

10.1108/ijqss-06-2017-0053 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 400-421 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jonathan Barsky

Keyword(s):

Design Methodology ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Customer Segmentation ◽

Price Sensitivity ◽

Content Type ◽

Casino Industry ◽

Social Casino Games ◽

Spending Patterns ◽

The Social ◽

Insight Into

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new customer segmentation model for the social casino industry. The key contribution of this model is the introduction of original psychographic/taste data, including a player emotions scale. Design/methodology/approach The data for this research are based on player feedback from 22 countries, with evaluations of the top 100 social casino titles (apps). The new segmentation model splits the industry into distinct customer groups based on spending patterns, behavioral dimensions and attitudinal dimensions. Findings The results provide insight into game mechanics, social dynamics, player emotions, spend, price sensitivity, loyalty and other elements that impact monetization. Critical behaviors and preferences of social casino players that will help companies better understand and connect with their target customers are described. Originality/value This is the first study to develop a rigorous segmentation model of social casino games based on behavioral and psychographic data.

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Understanding Post-Secondary Student Stress: A Qualitative Analysis

10.31124/advance.8233562.v1 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Brooke Linden

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Qualitative Analysis ◽

Secondary Students ◽

Campus Culture ◽

Future Research ◽

Secondary Student ◽

Post Secondary ◽

Student Stress ◽

The Social ◽

Insight Into

The purpose of this study was to generate conversations with post-secondary students about common sources of stress within the post-secondary setting, and gain insight into the social context surrounding these issues. Five major themes of stress were identified, including: academics, the learning environment, campus culture, interpersonal, and personal stressors. Implications of these findings are discussed in the context of existing literature as well as possible directions for future research.<br>

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Understanding Post-Secondary Student Stress: A Qualitative Analysis

10.31124/advance.8233562 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Brooke Linden

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Qualitative Analysis ◽

Secondary Students ◽

Campus Culture ◽

Future Research ◽

Secondary Student ◽

Post Secondary ◽

Student Stress ◽

The Social ◽

Insight Into

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Temporary Communitas at an Iconic Cricket Event: An Ethnographic Study

Event Management ◽

10.3727/152599522x16419948390763 ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

Leonie Lockstone-Binney ◽

Judith Mair ◽

Tom Baum ◽

Faith Ong

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Analysis ◽

Factor Structure ◽

Social Relations ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Future Studies ◽

Sporting Event ◽

The Social ◽

Insight Into ◽

Over Time

The nature of events demand uniqueness and memorability, but the specific elements of experience that produce these have not been deeply examined, particularly over the course of the event experience. Much of this relies heavily on event places and the social relations they facilitate. This research used the concept of temporary communitas and built on the Event Experience Scale (EES) through an ethnographic study of an iconic multi-day, spectator driven sporting event. Solicited participant diaries of eight friends and family who travelled to attend the 2017 Boxing Day Ashes Test in Melbourne, Australia, were collected pre, during and post-event to capture the event experience as it emerged over time. Qualitative analysis of the ethnographic accounts revealed four event experience themes (competition, emotions and atmosphere, special experience and interactions), which collectively were connected to a strong sense of temporary communitas. These themes were evident across the event cycle, providing insight into the nuances of the event experience, and highlighting the importance of understanding the social relations generated in the event place pre- and post-event. Consequently, it is suggested that revision to the existing EES instrument is required to more comprehensively assess for temporary communitas as part of the event experience. Future studies could usefully test the factor structure of the EES with and without the suggested additional temporary communitas items and compare both models on the basis of their reliability and validity.

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Immigrants as Symbolic Assailants

International Criminal Justice Review ◽

10.1177/1057567717721299 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 5-24 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Jize Jiang ◽

Edna Erez

Keyword(s):

Criminal Justice ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Analytical Framework ◽

The United States ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Partisan Politics ◽

Current Configuration ◽

Immigration Control ◽

Minority Threat ◽

The Social

Despite little evidence of an immigration-crime nexus, many American jurisdictions have adopted a punitive approach to undocumented immigrants and an increasingly restrictive and exclusive system of immigration control. The extensive deployment of criminal justice measures to address the immigration “problem” led to the growth of a crimmigration apparatus—a mesh of immigration and criminal justice systems. Drawing on extant literature and applying the framework of the penal field, the article examines the social dynamics, processes, and consequences of crimmigration. It is argued that the portrayal of immigrants as “symbolic assailants” has facilitated the creation and operation of crimmigration under the guise of crime prevention rather than for addressing terrorism and national security—the presumed purpose of utilizing crimmigration practices. The current configuration of crimmigration across the United States is the interactive product of minority threat, partisan politics, and federalism of the American government system, which have jointly formed a “multilayered patchwork” of immigration control. The article first outlines the analytical framework; reviews the social construction of immigrant “criminality”; and describes the punitive and exclusive laws, policies, and enforcement practices established as responses to this “threat.” The dilemmas, contradictions, and contestations associated with crimmigration, including collateral impacts on immigrants, their families and communities, and the criminal justice system, are analyzed; and policy implications are drawn and discussed.

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Elements of a sociolinguistic theory: The case of Breton

Dialectologia et Geolinguistica ◽

10.1515/dialect-2020-0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 1-53

Author(s):

Gary Manchec-German

Keyword(s):

Language Shift ◽

Major Elements ◽

Recent Book ◽

Endangered Language ◽

Vernacular Language ◽

The Social ◽

Economic Forces ◽

Inside View ◽

New Form ◽

Insight Into

Abstract This article is a synthesis of the major elements of a sociolinguistic theory presented by Jean Le Dû and Yves Le Berre in their recent book, Métamorphoses, Trente ans de sociolinguistique à Brest (1984–2014). Given that both authors come from native Breton-speaking families in Western Brittany and have experienced the language shift to French first-hand, they provide a unique, inside view of the process as well as the reasons Breton speakers opted in favour of French. The sociolinguistic concepts they have imagined provide highly useful tools that highlight the inseparable bond between language and the social, political and economic forces that govern our choices. More specifically, they point out that the “Breton language” is splintered into as many varieties as there are social and geographic entities in western Brittany. For this reason, it should not be viewed as a monolithic entity. Far from “reviving” or “saving” the language, the authors argue that the recent creation of a phonologically, grammatically and lexically unified Breton norm is often so distant from the vernacular language that it has provoked a new form of diglossia which failed to reverse the break in the transmission of the natural language. The book provides tremendous insight into the complex issues which lead people to shift to another language. Language planners and scholars working on similar endangered language situations and who want to understand the mechanisms at work (and thus hopefully have some success in their endeavours) would do well to take heed of their experience.

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What do adolescents with asthma really think about adherence to inhalers? Insights from a qualitative analysis of a UK online forum

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015245 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (6) ◽

pp. e015245 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Anna De Simoni ◽

Robert Horne ◽

Louise Fleming ◽

Andrew Bush ◽

Chris Griffiths

Keyword(s):

Side Effects ◽

Qualitative Analysis ◽

Social Stigma ◽

Public Awareness ◽

Online Forum ◽

Self Monitoring ◽

Search Terms ◽

The Social ◽

Adolescents And Adults ◽

Insight Into

ObjectiveTo explore the barriers and facilitators to inhaled asthma treatment in adolescents with asthma.DesignQualitative analysis of posts about inhaler treatment in adolescents from an online forum for people with asthma. Analysis informed by the Perceptions and Practicalities Approach.ParticipantsFifty-four forum participants (39 adolescents ≥16 years, 5 parents of adolescents, 10 adults with asthma) identified using search terms ‘teenager inhaler’ and ‘adolescent inhaler’.SettingPosts from adolescents, parents and adults with asthma taking part in the Asthma UK online forum between 2006 and 2016, UK.ResultsPractical barriers reducing the ability to adhere included forgetfulness and poor routines, inadequate inhaler technique, organisational difficulties (such as repeat prescriptions), and families not understanding or accepting their child had asthma. Prompting and monitoring inhaler treatment by parents were described as helpful, with adolescents benefiting from self-monitoring, for example, by using charts logging adherence. Perceptions reducing the motivation to adhere included asthma representation as episodic rather than chronic condition with intermittent need of inhaler treatment. Adolescents and adults with asthma (but not parents) described concerns related to attributed side effects (eg, weight gain) and social stigma, resulting in ‘embarrassment of taking inhalers’. Facilitators to adherence included actively seeking general practitioners’/consultants’ adjustments if problems arose and learning to deal with the side effects and stigma. Parents were instrumental in creating a sense of responsibility for adherence.ConclusionsThis online forum reveals a rich and novel insight into adherence to asthma inhalers by adolescents. Interventions that prompt and monitor preventer inhaler use would be welcomed and hold potential. In clinical consultations, exploring parents’ beliefs about asthma diagnosis and their role in dealing with barriers to treatment might be beneficial. The social stigma of asthma and its role in adherence were prominent and continue to be underestimated, warranting further research and action to improve public awareness of asthma.

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Pauperismus und Assoziation

International Review for Social History ◽

10.1017/s1873084100000033 ◽

1936 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 1-120 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Hans Stein

Keyword(s):

Social History ◽

Trade Unions ◽

Social Evolution ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

European Continent ◽

The Social ◽

Social Associations ◽

The Masses ◽

Insight Into ◽

West European

The present study with pauperism, its causes, its prevention and its significance for the social evolution on the West-European continent, endeavours to provide for one of the gaps which social history, seen as a science of the social dynamics prevailing in history, brings to light. The Rhine-territory here is presented as an exceptionally suggestive illustration.This investigation shows that both the social associations which the age of pauperism called up in defence against the distress of the masses, and the revolutionary tendencies are a determinant factor in the birth of the modem type of workman, as well as in the origin of the great West-European labour-organisations of the second half of the nineteenth century (trade-unions, cooperations and parties). The shaping of the Farmers'- and the Artisans'-Movement, particularly in Germany, is decisively influenced by them. This evolution of social associations means for the ruling classes the first attempt at neutralising the inner social tensions of the system of industrial capitalism.Thus the age of pauperism and associations is a period of preparation, of great social-historical importance, without insight into which the later social evolution — upon which our times are based — can be understood and explained in but a very imperfect manner. The investigation of this period again shows the necessity of regarding social history as in independant part of the discipline of the discipline of the social sciences.

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