A Study of Performative Hactivist Subcultures and Threats to Businesses
| Autor: | Daniel C. Phelps, Robert C. Hare, Michael Workman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
Information Systems and Management
business.industry Social engineering (security) Psychological intervention Performative utterance Information security Public relations Computer security computer.software_genre Computer Science Applications Work (electrical) Analytics The Internet Sociology business computer Software Political dissent |
| Zdroj: | Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective. 22:187-200 |
| ISSN: | 1939-3547 1939-3555 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/19393555.2013.852637 |
| Popis: | Performative hactivism is the use of the Internet for expressing extreme political dissent online. It differs from cyber harassment in that performative hactivism is politically motivated. We found that there are contagion and other social effects among hactivists and that hactivism exhibits feature patterns that define them as subcultures. To conduct our research, we created a provocative Website and blog and then promoted it on the Internet. Using sentiment analyses and logistic regression, we identified features associated with performative hactivism. We then studied the blog remarks and used Website analytics to gain a better understanding of the implications for business security. The results from this work should help business and information security researchers especially in social engineering, as well as business practice managers, strategists, and security analysts, to predict the lifecycles and impacts of hactivism on their operations and assist them in the creation of interventions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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