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 →I am a fan of author Warren Ellis. He writes comics like Doktor Sleepless which has some interesting information warfare themes along with mad science and you should all check it out. Doktor Sleepless incidentally, is where I stole the cool warning signs that grace my first couple of entries here. Warren Ellis is a strange, strange man. He has a very popular twitter account (over 300,000 followers) where he does the usual twitter things but in…
Read more →Sometimes I end up in conversations with people that leave me with an undeniable urge to prove my point, generally only to myself. Last April I had a conversation along these lines that left me writing a piece of "malware" that communicated via Twitter and since by the time I'd finished the conversation was no longer relevant and so I just let it sit there. Later last year I wrote a paper about Web 2.0…
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…
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