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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Pig Butchering in Cybersecurity: A Modern Social Engineering Threat [PDF]
SocioEconomic ChallengesPig butchering is an escalating cybersecurity threat that exploits social engineering to build trust and execute financial fraud. The relevance of this research problem lies in the growing incidence and sophistication of these scams, which have severe ...
Dr. Sharon L. Burton +1 more
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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract We investigate how the affordances of an online context shape the processes of social learning. Using a dataset of more than 11,000 posts from the fraud subdread on the dark web forum Dread, we examine how affordances of platform governance, connectivity, anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, and limited oversight influence the components ...
Fangzhou Wang, Timothy Dickinson
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Now You See Them, Now You Don't: Understanding New Hire Ghosting and Its Antecedents
Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT New hire ghosting, in which applicants accept an offer and then quit before their first day without notice, is an emerging and consequential staffing phenomenon. Drawing on job embeddedness theory, we conceptualize new hire ghosting as a form of pre‐entry withdrawal influenced by dispositional risk and the fragile fit, links, and sacrifice ...
Andrew B. Speer +4 more
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Unpacking the effects of scams in marketplace lending: investor confidence and attention
Journal of Applied EconomicsBoth transformational and problematic platforms, corresponding to moderate and severe scam conditions, are considered abnormal in Chinese marketplace lending.
Jianwen Li, Yang Zhou, Jinyan Hu
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‘I'd rather have worse gums than worse lungs’: Young people's views of nicotine pouches in the UK
Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and aims Nicotine pouches entered the UK market in 2019. Although research has shown that young people's prevalence of use has been low, it has been reported to be increasing and a cause for concern. This paper reports the findings of the first qualitative study in the UK to explore the views of 14–16 year olds' knowledge, awareness
Andy MacGregor +7 more
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This study develops an explainable machine learning model to predict cryptocurrency delistings using Binance data. It combines quantitative indicators (price, volume) with qualitative data from real‐time news and Reddit. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is used to extract topic trends and community reactions, which are transformed into time ...
Sungju Yang, Hunyeong Kwon
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The African Journal of Information and CommunicationThe prevalence of scams proliferating via online platforms has been identified as an emerging societal problem resulting in large-scale financial losses for victims.
Julie Reid
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The Outsiders: Principled Withdrawal, Whiteness, and Power in the Los Angeles Food Justice Movement
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article draws on understandings of whiteness and the misconstrual of South Central Los Angeles to analyze the power dynamics between “outsider” activists and residents of South Central as they worked toward a more equitable food system.
Hanna Garth
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Some Attempts to Speculate Vigilance on the International Financial Market [PDF]
Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series, 2022 This material has been designed to highlight some of the forms of misleading the vigilance of those who drive with money, whatever its form. Although we are in the first half of the first century of the third millennium, there are still people who ...
Ion Gr. Ionescu, Florența Crețu
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