Just a quick note to say that my paper "Twitter as a Vector for Disinformation" was published in the Journal of Information Warfare last month. This is my first academic publication and I'm very excited about it. The paper is also available right from this very blog!
Read more →There are a lot of bad websites out there and visiting one can do bad things to your network. There's plenty of technologies that try and detect bad pages and block or filter them but the problem is that they're imperfect. There are other solutions like whitetrash that only allow you to visit sites that are listed as good (whitetrash is awesome, go play with it). The problem is creating the list of what sites are…
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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