Joshua Clark
ABSTRACT
Online communities help generate a rich set of ties between their members. However, these networks contain individuals who often have drastically different goals and motivations, including those aiming to exploit community norms for their own benefit. My research explores how these counter normative individuals position themselves within a given network and how the community responds in turn. Using a mixed methods approach that draws on social network analysis, data mining, inferential statistics and qualitative analysis, I unpack how communities are exploited and the adaptations made by groups to counter this process.
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Index Terms
- Parsing a Network: Unpacking Counter Normative Actors from Multi-Network Systems
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