Anonymity and online commenting: The broken windows effect and the end of drive-by commenting

Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Web Science Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Fredheim, Rolf ^a   Moore, Alfred ^a   Naughton, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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FACEBOOK; SPAMMERS;

EID: 84978127872     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2786451.2786459     Document Type: Conference Paper

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