Hacker's Paradise: Analysing Music in a Cybercrime Forum
Anna Talas,
Alice Hutchings
Abstract:Underground cybercrime forums have numerous discussion boards where users interact with each other. The majority of the topics revolve around technology, but a substantial number also discuss everyday topics and interests, including music. The aim of this research is to analyse the musical content posted on a large English-language underground forum to understand what types of musical content is shared, if the lyrics glamorise cybercrime, and if those who post musical content also post more about criminal acti… Show more
Set email alert for when this publication receives citations?
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.