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Richard Frank
Researcher at Simon Fraser University
Publications - 81
Citations - 1335
Richard Frank is an academic researcher from Simon Fraser University. The author has contributed to research in topics: The Internet & Sentiment analysis. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 80 publications receiving 1070 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard Frank include University of British Columbia.
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Finding the Key Players in Online Child Exploitation Networks
TL;DR: Results show that network capital — a combination between severity of content and connectivity and connectivity — is a more reliable measure of target prioritization than more traditional measures of network centrality taken alone.
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Upvoting extremism: Collective identity formation and the extreme right on Reddit:
TL;DR: The results of the thematic analysis indicate that those who post extreme-right content on r/The_Donald use Reddit’s voting algorithm as a tool to mobilize like-minded members by promoting extreme discourses against two prominent out-groups: Muslims and the Left.
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Age and the distance to crime
TL;DR: The journey-to-crime literature consistently shows that the distance to crime is short, particularly for violent crimes as discussed by the authors, and the authors of this paper have revealed methodological concerns regarding various (impr...
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Identifying Digital Threats in a Hacker Web Forum
TL;DR: The language of hackers was analyzed to identify potential threats against critical infrastructures using automated analysis tools to address a gap in the literature.
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Searching for signs of extremism on the web: an introduction to Sentiment-based Identification of Radical Authors
TL;DR: There is no simple typology that best describes radical users online; however, the method is flexible enough to evaluate several properties of a user’s online activity that can identify radical users on the forums.