Social Engineering
How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulativ e Communication
$59.99
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
29 March 2022
Summary
Manipulative communication—from early twentieth-century propaganda to today’s online con artistry—examined through the lens of social engineering.
The United States is awash in manipulated information about everything from election results to the effectiveness of medical treatments. Corporate social media is an especially good channel for manipulative communication, with Facebook a particularly willing vehicle for it. In Social Engineering, Robert Gehl and Sean Lawson show th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262543453 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262543451 |
| Author: | Robert W. Gehl, Sean T. Lawson |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 29 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Robert W. Gehl
Robert W. Gehl is F. Jay Taylor Endowed Research Chair of Communication at Louisiana Tech University and the author of Weaving the Dark Web (MIT Press).
Sean T. Lawson is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Utah, Non-Resident Fellow at the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation & Future Warfare at the Marine Corps University, and author of Cybersecurity Discourse in the United States.
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