“Sharing Identity Information on Dark Web Drug Boards”, 2021-07-17 (; similar):
This chapter uses Elfreda Chatman’s concept of ‘small worlds’ and Reijo Savolainen’s concept of ‘Way of Life’ to examine identity information sharing on a Finnish Dark Web drug trading image board.
Based on a curated set of posts, it shows how people’s identity information sharing on such anonymous fora often centres around issues of trust and safety. The chapter discovers that like other small world virtual communities, these too are of information poor environments, where some participants are seen as outsiders and some as insiders, based on factors such as age, ethnicity, and information sharing.
[Keywords: information practices, information sharing, Dark Web, drug trading, image board]