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Lying on the Internet

Lying on the Internet

Stepan Konecny
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781466603158|ISBN10: 1466603151|EISBN13: 9781466603165
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0315-8.ch078
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Konecny, Stepan. "Lying on the Internet." Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior, edited by Zheng Yan, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 944-959. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0315-8.ch078

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Konecny, S. (2012). Lying on the Internet. In Z. Yan (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior (pp. 944-959). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0315-8.ch078

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Konecny, Stepan. "Lying on the Internet." In Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior, edited by Zheng Yan, 944-959. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0315-8.ch078

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Abstract

Mass media often presents a warped image of the Internet as an unreliable environment in which nobody can be trusted. In this entry, the authors describe lying on the Internet both in the context of lying in the real world and with respect to the special properties of computer-mediated communication (CMC). They deal with the most frequent motives for lying online, such as increasing one’s attractiveness or experimenting with identities. They also take into account the various environments of the Internet and their individual effects on various properties of lying. The current methods for detecting lies and the potential for future computer-linguistic analysis of hints for lying in electronic communication are also considered.

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