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Characterizing Online Vandalism: A Rational Choice Perspective
arXiv - CS - Social and Information Networks Pub Date : 2020-07-04 , DOI: arxiv-2007.02199
Kaylea Champion

What factors influence the decision to vandalize? Although the harm is clear, the benefit to the vandal is less clear. In many cases, the thing being damaged may itself be something the vandal uses or enjoys. Vandalism holds communicative value: perhaps to the vandal themselves, to some audience at whom the vandalism is aimed, and to the general public. Viewing vandals as rational community participants despite their antinormative behavior offers the possibility of engaging with or countering their choices in novel ways. Rational choice theory (RCT) as applied in value expectancy theory (VET) offers a strategy for characterizing behaviors in a framework of rational choices, and begins with the supposition that subject to some weighting of personal preferences and constraints, individuals maximize their own utility by committing acts of vandalism. This study applies the framework of RCT and VET to gain insight into vandals' preferences and constraints. Using a mixed-methods analysis of Wikipedia, I combine social computing and criminological perspectives on vandalism to propose an ontology of vandalism for online content communities. I use this ontology to categorize 141 instances of vandalism and find that the character of vandalistic acts varies by vandals' relative identifiability, policy history with Wikipedia, and the effort required to vandalize.

中文翻译:

表征在线故意破坏:理性选择视角

哪些因素会影响破坏的决定?虽然危害是显而易见的,但对破坏者的好处却不太清楚。在许多情况下,被损坏的东西本身可能是破坏者使用或喜欢的东西。故意破坏行为具有交流价值:可能对破坏者本身、对故意破坏行为所针对的某些受众以及公众而言。将破坏者视为理性的社区参与者,尽管他们的反规范行为提供了以新颖的方式参与或反对他们的选择的可能性。价值预期理论 (VET) 中应用的理性选择理论 (RCT) 提供了一种在理性选择框架中描述行为特征的策略,并假设在个人偏好和约束的某些权重下,个人通过以下方式最大化自己的效用实施破坏行为。本研究应用 RCT 和 VET 的框架来深入了解破坏者的偏好和约束。使用维基百科的混合方法分析,我结合了社会计算和关于故意破坏的犯罪学观点,为在线内容社区提出了一个破坏行为本体论。我使用这个本体对 141 个故意破坏实例进行分类,发现破坏行为的特征因破坏者的相对可识别性、维基百科的政策历史以及破坏行为所需的努力而异。
更新日期:2020-07-07
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