Adapting to overcome problems can allow us to innovate and renovate how we do things. Dr Richard Frank and Noelle Warkentin from Simon Fraser University chat with us about the struggle of trying to perform important research under unfavourable conditions, the use of third-party service providers for data collection in research and how the dynamic nature of cyberspace is creating challenges for the processes designed to ensure ethical research.
About our guests:
Dr. Richard Frank
https://www.sfu.ca/criminology/about/faculty/criminology-faculty/richard-frank.html
Noelle Warkentin
https://www.sfu.ca/iccrc/members/memberprofiles/Noelle-Warkentin.html
Papers or resources mentioned in this episode:
Noelle Warkentin, Richard Frank, Yuxuan (Cicilia) Zhang & Naomi Zakimi (2022) Potential cyber-threats against Canada’s critical infrastructure: an investigation of online discussion forums,Criminal Justice Studies, 35:3, 322-345, DOI: 10.1080/1478601X.2022.2081568
Frank, R., & Mikhaylov, A. (2020). Beyond the ‘Silk Road’: Assessing illicit drug marketplaces on the public web. Open Source Intelligence and Cyber Crime: Social Media Analytics, 89-111.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-41251-7_4
A. T. Zulkarnine, R. Frank, B. Monk, J. Mitchell and G. Davies, "Surfacing collaborated networks in dark web to find illicit and criminal content," 2016 IEEE Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), Tucson, AZ, USA, 2016, pp. 109-114, doi: 10.1109/ISI.2016.7745452.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7745452
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