Emotional strip-mining”
Sympathy sockpuppets in online communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12656265 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Devon Greyson (0000-0003-4860-384X, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA; The University of British Columbia, Canada, corresponding author), Kaitlin Light Costello (0000-0002-1589-7418, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 3328-3349 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Media & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14614448211040521 |
| OpenAlex | W3196971449 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 43 |
Sympathy sockpuppets are false online identities used for purposes of extracting care work from others. While online community infiltration for nefarious purposes is a well-documented phenomenon, people may also join online communities using deceptive personas (“sockpuppet” accounts) for non-nefarious reasons, such as to gain sympathy or cultivate a sense of belonging in a group. In comparison with scamming and trolling, this more subtle form of online deception is not well understood, and to date, its impacts on individuals and communities have not been fully articulated. This knowledge gap leaves communities without guidance when managing the impacts of this sympathy sockpuppet deception. We interviewed people who had been members of online communities that discovered sympathy sockpuppets in their midst to explore and characterize the phenomenon of sympathy sockpuppetry and to provide guidance for other individuals and communities that encounter similar forms of online deception
Deception · Epistemology · Internet privacy · Online community · Phenomenon · Political science · Shame · Sympathy · Computer Science · Deception detection and forensic psychology · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |