Knowledge Sharing Network in a Community of Illicit Practice: A Cybermarket Subreddit Case
Knowledge Sharing Network in a Community of Illicit Practice: A Cybermarket Subreddit Case
dc.contributor.author | Kwon, K. Hazel | |
dc.contributor.author | Yu, Weiwen | |
dc.contributor.author | Kilar, Stephen | |
dc.contributor.author | Shao, Chun | |
dc.contributor.author | Broussard, Kailey | |
dc.contributor.author | Lutes, Thomas | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-04T07:43:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-01-04T07:43:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-01-07 | |
dc.description.abstract | Often neglected in the literature about communities of practice is the fact that online knowledge-sharing communities thrive among illicit collectives whose activities are stigmatized or outlawed. This paper focuses on a knowledge-sharing community of users who engage in illegal practices by examining the ways in which the community’s network structure changes when a high-stakes, uncertain event—the July 2017 shutdown of the dark web market Alphabay—occurs. This study compares the discussion network structures in the subreddit r/AlphaBay during pre-shutdown days (the “routine” period) and shutdown days (the “market defect” period) and offers a content analysis of the knowledge and resources shared by users during these periods. Several differences were observed: (a) the network structure changed such that the network size grew while becoming more centralized; (b) new crisis-specific players emerged; (c) types of knowledge shared during the market defect period was qualitatively different from the routine period. | |
dc.format.extent | 10 pages | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.24251/HICSS.2020.334 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-0-9981331-3-3 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/64076 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Mediated Conversation | |
dc.subject | community of illicit practice | |
dc.subject | cryptomarket | |
dc.subject | dark web | |
dc.subject | hidden online community | |
dc.subject | knowledge sharing network | |
dc.title | Knowledge Sharing Network in a Community of Illicit Practice: A Cybermarket Subreddit Case | |
dc.type | Conference Paper | |
dc.type.dcmi | Text |
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