Diffusion of deception in social media: Social contagion effects and its antecedents

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1353-1367

  Vishwanath, Arun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication and collaboration; IT diffusion and adoption; Laboratory experiments; Online deception; Phishing; Social contagion; Social media

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CRIME; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; IT DIFFUSION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; ONLINE DECEPTION; PHISHING; SOCIAL CONTAGION; SOCIAL MEDIA;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84947612191     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: 15729419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-014-9509-2     Document Type: Article

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