Identity multipliers and the mistaken twittering of birds of a feather
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited
Faculty
Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science
School
School of Computer and Security Science / Security Research Institute
RAS ID
17655
Abstract
New Media usage has expanded in unexpected directions. This qualitative study pulls together two new media phenomena that demonstrate widespread engineered influence through Twitter dispersion. The first aspect is the practice of sock‐puppetry deception that occurs when social media identities are used without proof of identity. The relative ease in creating a single invented online identity is overshadowed by the more recent practise of harnessing thousands of created identities to accentuate the standing of ...
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Cook, D. M. (2014). Identity Multipliers and the Mistaken Twittering of Birds of a Feather. Proceedings of European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security ECCWS 2014. (pp. 42 - 48). University of Piraeus, Greece. Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited. Available here.