Discover lives as lived: create puzzlement and elaborate your bafflement
The researcher stance should be one of polite but informed puzzlement and a willingness to learn from the world. A…
Reading list for June
This month was mainly spent reviewing references for a paper on darknet markets and illicit drug diffusion. It’s a fine…
An introvert’s guide to the academic conference. Yes, ‘conference’ means ‘converse’ so saddle up
… it just happens to be one where everyone is silently watching, and judging 👍 To the introvert an academic…
Strategies for developing research into digital crime
The field of crime and public policy is at a critical turning point. There are new threats such as the…
Oops, our business model is being done to us
Thinking about Apple’s travails running its iCloud service in China. As a condition of operating in China the Chinese government…
Digital drug markets as territories
Introduction This paper theorises drug markets through the concept of digital territory. I hypothesis that territorialisation is a critical process…
Cybercriminals are doing press releases
… and unlike 99% of press releases these actually tell you something and are worth reading DarkSide is a Russian…
Teaching and learning with context collapse
What scares me in learning? I might be called upon by the teacher and not have an answer, or not…
A bit of a paper I’m working on – How illicit online drug market cues up intoxication potency and produces a risk reflective, rational subjectivity among opiate users
Markets embed a specific kind of illicit drug culture I wanted to think through how the specific configuration of digital…
Detecting the watchers
Surveillance has been the big idea of criminology for some time. It appears to be a ubiquitous fact of life…
