You Don’t Fool Me: On Scams, Scambaiting, Deception, and Epistemological Ambiguity at R/scambait on Reddit

With a focus on the online phenomena of scamming and scambaiting, this article explores users’ communicative activities on Reddit’s r/scambait subreddit. Drawing on a representative corpus viewed through grounded theory, we establish the basic categories of posts and then unpack those further to rev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marta Dynel, Andrew S. Ross
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2021-08-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051211035698