Social Engineering by Robert W. Gehl - ISBN: 9780262543453
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From propaganda to online cons: Manipulating you, then and now.

Social Engineering

How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulativ e Communication

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    304 pages

  • Release Date

    29 March 2022

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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
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
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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