Educating the Public to Combat Online Defamation, Doxing, and Impersonation

2022 ◽  
pp. 231-242
Author(s):  
Ashu M. G. Solo
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internet Age ◽  
Technology Advances

Online defamation, doxing, and impersonation are three of the major problems of the internet age. As technology advances, these become greater problems. These problems can cause serious damage to victims. This research chapter makes recommendations on how to educate the public to deal with online defamation, doxing, and impersonation. It concludes by proposing a field called “misinformation identification engineering” to develop algorithms and software to find, flag, or remove misinformation and disinformation on websites and in other documents.

scholarly journals FROM MOCKUMENTARY TO INTERNET MEME: THE BRITISH MEDIA, CELEBRITY, AND PRINCE HARRY’S SECOND MILITARY DEPLOYMENT TO AFGHANISTAN

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-85
Author(s):  
Richard A. Voeltz `
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Strong Reaction ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internet Age ◽  
The Media ◽  
Unlimited Access ◽  
Television Coverage ◽  
Tv Show

Media critics of the war in Afghanistan and Prince Harry’s participation in it hoped that his imagined kidnapping by the Taliban portrayed in the British TV mockumentary The Taking of Prince Harry (2010) would prevent his return to Afghanistan. Prince Harry’s first deployment to Afghanistan in 2007-2008 was conducted under a media blackout to protect him from potential Taliban threats. He returned home after news of his service leaked out on the internet. However, his second deployment to Afghanistan after the mockumentary aired was radically different. The British media was now given almost unlimited access to Captain Wales in terms of interviews, television coverage, and video postings on YouTube. Prince Harry’s second 20 weeks serving in Afghanistan from 2012 to 2013 became an effective reality TV show and viral internet sensation, culminating in the propaganda documentary exercise of Prince Harry: Frontline Afghanistan (2013) that the British government and military hoped would erase the public relations disaster associated with his first deployment that prompted the making of The Taking of Prince Harry. But the successful packaging of Prince Harry proved difficult in the Internet Age. In fact, the perceived unfair treatment of Harry by the media prompted such a strong reaction in him that it can be seen as instrumental in the current attempts by Harry and Meghan to establish new identities separate from the monarchy through a newly refashioned celebrity.

scholarly journals After the post-public sphere

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1545-1563
Author(s):  
Philip Schlesinger
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Present Condition ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internet Age ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Transitional Phase ◽  
Over Time

The idea of a public sphere has long been central to discussion of political communication. Its present condition is the topic of this essay. Debate about the public sphere has been shaped by the boundary-policing of competing political systems and ideologies. Current discussion reflects the accelerating transition from the mass media era to the ramifying entrenchment of the Internet age. It has also been influenced by the vogue for analysing populism. The present transitional phase, whose outcome remains unclear, is best described as an unstable ‘post-public sphere’. This instability is not unusual as, over time, conceptions of the public sphere’s underpinnings and scope have continually shifted. Latterly, states’ responses to the development of the Internet have given rise to a new shift of focus, a ‘regulatory turn’. This is likely to influence the future shape of the public sphere.

scholarly journals The Economics of Cultural Policy in the Internet Age

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Politique Publique ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internet Age ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
Cultural Sector

Abstract: This discussion takes both a cultural and economic perspective in looking at examples wherein reducing the Canadian Internet deficit would serve the public interest, and examines the prospects for addressing the deficit with public policy. The author suggests that the Internet is important for public policy because it is a medium for delivering the "cultural sector" of the economy. Policymakers, he argues, should take a lively interest in Canadian content on the Internet for the same reason that they have historically taken an interest in the country's cultural expression more generally. After addressing the issue of access, the paper asserts that there remains a solid economic justification for public support of arts and culture, including the Internet, and provides pragmatic reasons for an activist cultural policy. Résumé : L'auteur emploie à la fois une perspective culturelle et une économique pour considérer des situations où réduire le déficit Internet canadien servirait l'intérêt public, et examine la possibilité de diminuer ce déficit au moyen de politiques publiques. Il croit qu'Internet est un champ important pour la politique publique parce que c'est un moyen efficace de livrer au public le « secteur culturel » de l'économie. À son avis, les décideurs politiques devraient s'intéresser vivement au contenu canadien sur Internet pour la même raison qu'ils se sont intéressés dans le passé aux expressions culturelles du pays en général. L'article, après avoir adressé la question d'accès, soutient qu'il y a encore aujourd'hui une justification économique solide pour que le gouvernement continue à appuyer les arts et la culture, y compris Internet, et donne des raisons pragmatiques pour une politique culturelle engagée.

scholarly journals Vanuatu: Accountability from the Subsistence Age to the Internet Age

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-50
Author(s):  
Marie-Noelle Ferrieux Patterson
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internet Age ◽  
Public Pressure ◽  
Do So

Commentary: Vanuatu governments are not used to being held accountable. They act like they do not owe any explanation to the public about what they are doing. Rather than taking the initiative, successive Vanuatu governments seem to address significant issues only if they are forced by sustained public pressure in the private media to do so.

Imagining the Digital Future of The Public Historian

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Bryans ◽  
Albert Camarillo ◽  
Swati Chattopadhyay ◽  
Jon Christensen ◽  
Sharon Leon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Public History ◽  
Scholarly Journal ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internet Age

The digital revolution has transformed research, exhibition, writing, review, participatory public engagement, and every other aspect of history practice. To consider the influence of these changes on The Public Historian, the journal has solicited the perspectives of six scholars with expertise on digital history to reflect on what the internet age affords TPH as a scholarly journal for the field of public history.

scholarly journals The Role of the Internet in Doctor Performance Rating

2009 ◽  
Vol 3;12 (3;5) ◽  
pp. 659-664
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Segal
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internet Age ◽  
Traditional Remedy ◽  
Medical Licensing ◽  
Physician Rating ◽  
Novel Method

Historically, if a patient was dissatisfied with care, he or she could tell his or her friends and family. The criticism was limited to a small circle of people. If the patient was injured negligently, he or she could hire an attorney to prosecute a lawsuit. The threshold for finding an attorney and prevailing posed a significant barrier for the patient achieving redress. With the Internet, if a patient is unhappy he or she needs do little more than access a growing number of Internet physician rating sites. Such criticism can be rendered anonymously. The posts are disseminated worldwide, and once posted, the criticism rarely comes down. While transparency is a laudable goal, such sites often lack accountability. More formal sites run by authoritative bodies, such as medical licensing boards, also provide data about physicians, but such data is often unfiltered, making it difficult for the public to properly interpret. Given how important reputation is to physicians, the traditional remedy of suing for defamation because of libelous posts is ordinarily ineffective. First, many patients who post libelous comments, do so anonymously. Next, the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) hosting such sites are generally immune from liability for defamation. Finally, the law has a very formal definition for libel, and a negative rating does not necessarily equate to “defamation.” A novel method of addressing un-policed physician rating sites in the Internet age is described. The system embraces the use of mutual privacy contracts to provide physicians a viable remedy to anonymous posts. In exchange, patients receive additional privacy protections above and beyond that mandated by law. Key words: Defamation, libel, Internet, physician, rating sites, Section 230, Communication Decency Act, anonymous

Detecting “DeepFakes” in H.264 Video Data Using Compression Ghost Artifacts

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (4) ◽  
pp. 116-1-116-7
Author(s):  
Raphael Antonius Frick ◽  
Sascha Zmudzinski ◽  
Martin Steinebach
Keyword(s):  
Image Forensics ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Video Sequences ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Video Content ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Public

In recent years, the number of forged videos circulating on the Internet has immensely increased. Software and services to create such forgeries have become more and more accessible to the public. In this regard, the risk of malicious use of forged videos has risen. This work proposes an approach based on the Ghost effect knwon from image forensics for detecting forgeries in videos that can replace faces in video sequences or change the mimic of a face. The experimental results show that the proposed approach is able to identify forgery in high-quality encoded video content.

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