The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age
The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age
Trends and patterns among online software pirates
Ethics and Information Technology
Deviance and the internet: new challenge for social science
Social Science Computer Review - Deviance and the internet: New challenges for social science
Reputation and Dispute in eBay Transactions
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Bidding Behavior in On-line Auctions: An Examination of the eBay Pokemon Card Market
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Cheating Behaviors in Online Gaming
OCSC '09 Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Players who play to make others cry: the influence of anonymity and immersion
Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Enterntainment Technology
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Although considerable academic interest has focused on seriouscyber-crimes, more commonplace Internet misuses (e.g.,misrepresentation of self, unauthorized downloading, Internetpornography, online plagiarism, and other "cyber-cheating") havereceived less attention. Although these transgressions are of minorlegal importance, they merit closer academic scrutiny. Based on aself-report study of 1,222 U.K. undergraduate students, thisarticle explores the prevalence, nature, and underpinningfacilitators of five examples of Internet-based misbehavior.Although more than 90% of respondents self-reported onlinemisbehavior during the past 12 months, significant differences areevident in gender, Internet expertise, and, to a lesser extent,age. Although respondents portrayed the Internet as a moreconducive environment for misbehavior, the survey data report astrong correlation between respondents' propensity to misbehave inonline and offline contexts. These data highlight the needto contextualize cyber-deviance in relation to the offline "lifeworld" of the Internet user and the Internet's wider role ineveryday life.