A few years back I ran a small advertising campaign on Facebook and in an attempt to recover my business Facebook graciously gifted me USD50 of advertising credit. Unfortunately I didn't have any goods or services that I wanted to advertise just then so I figured that I'd have to get creative. Unsurprisingly Facebook advertisements are boldly commercial and quite direct in what you will get out of clicking on them, part of this is inherent…
Read more →Earlier this year I wrote a paper about disinformation on Twitter, basically the potential for people to spread lies and shape opinion with Twitter. Like the EVE paper I've started polishing it before submitting it to a journal and though that I'd share my draft with you all. There's stuff about swine flu, the US economic stimulus package, plane crashes and terrorism! How can you not love it? Twitter as a Vector for Disinformation Abstract…
Read more →So last year I wrote a paper about EVE Online and the interesting things corporations do to each other. Recently I've been polishing it before submitting it to a journal and as a special blog-warming post I thought I'd post my current draft. If you read it, I'd be interested to know what you think. Information Operations in and around EVE Online Abstract Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMOs) provide a persistent virtual world…
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