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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2021-08-01
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| Series: | Social Media + Society |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051211035698 |