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Paper: Faceless patrons – an augmented installation exploring 419- fictional narratives

Posted on: April 21, 2014 /
Categories: Publications, Research

Title: Faceless patrons – an augmented installation exploring 419-fictional narratives Author(s): Andreas Zingerle, Linda Kronman Email: andreas.zingerle (at) ufg.ac.at, linda (at) kairus.org Published at: Proceedings of International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey.   Abstract: ‘Faceless patrons’ is an installation that documents stories used by Internet scammers in so called ‘overpayment check

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Paper: Re: Dakar Arts Festival – exploring transmedia storytelling methods to document an Internet scam

Posted on: April 21, 2014 /
Categories: Publications, Research

Title: Re: Dakar Arts Festival – exploring transmedia storytelling methods to document an Internet scam Author(s): Andreas Zingerle, Linda Kronman Email: andreas.zingerle (at) ufg.ac.at, linda (at) kairus.org Published at: Proceedings of International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey.   Abstract: With the “Re: Dakar Arts Festival” project we present an alternative way

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Password: * * * * * *

Posted on: February 11, 2014 /
Categories: Recent works

  Password: * * * * * * reveals popular email-passwords of internet scammers. The passwords are arranged typographically in six stars, each star containing most popular word combination with the words: ‘good’, ‘love’, ‘money’, ‘mother’, ‘jesus’, ‘bless’. Email services like Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Outlook are used by scammers to create fake identities and

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Paper: Humiliating entertainment or social activism? Analyzing Scambaiting Strategies Against Online Advance Fee Fraud

Posted on: October 17, 2013 /
Categories: Publications, Research

Title: ‘Humiliating entertainment or social activism? Analyzing Scambaiting Strategies Against Online Advance Fee Fraud’ Author(s): Andreas Zingerle Email: andreas.zingerle (at) ufg.ac.at Published at: Cyberworlds 2013, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan. Abstract: Scam baiters are individuals in online information communities specializing in identifying, documenting and reporting actions of so-called ‘419 scammers’. A qualitative research approach was applied

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Workshop: 419fiction-Revisiting the spam folder

Posted on: August 22, 2013 /
Categories: Lectures, Research, Workshops

Workshop: ‘Revisiting the spam folder’ – Using 419fiction for Interactive Storytelling   The workshop is organized by Andreas Zingerle and Linda Kronman (kairus.org). Past workshops, lectures and presentations: 08/15: ISEA conference, Vancouver/Canada. 08/15: Workshop at Electronic Literature conference, Bergen/Norway. 02/15: Workshop at Digital Culture Research Group, University of Bergen, Norway. 11/14: Workshop at Internet research

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