Cybercrimeology

Cybercrime Awareness Theatre: The revolutionary promise of story sharing

Episode Summary

For cybercrime awareness to be effective it has to be heard. Dr Katalin Parti joins us talk online scams and to explain the Performances to Reduce Online Scams (PROS) project that is taking awareness storytelling to audiences in the form of an interactive theatre experience. We discuss how the program works and the interesting metrics that reveal how it affects different audiences.

Episode Notes

About our guests:

Dr. Katalin Parti

https://liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-and-schools/department-of-sociology/faculty/katalin-parti.html

https://www.linkedin.com/in/partikat

 

Papers or resources mentioned in this episode:

PROS: Performances to Reduce Online Scams

https://liberalarts.vt.edu/research-centers/center-for-gerontology/pros--performances-to-reduce-online-scams.html

Parti, Katalin, and Faika Tahir. 2023. "“If We Don’t Listen to Them, We Make Them Lose More than Money:” Exploring Reasons for Underreporting and the Needs of Older Scam Victims" Social Sciences 12, no. 5: 264. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12050264

Parti, K. (2022). “Elder Scam” Risk Profiles: Individual and Situational Factors of Younger and Older Age Groups’ Fraud Victimization.

https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/112369/Parti_IJCIC_2022.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y

Boal, A. (2000). Theater of the Oppressed. United Kingdom: Pluto.

 

Freire, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the Oppressed. United States: Herder and Herder.

https://envs.ucsc.edu/internships/internship-readings/freire-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed.pdf

 

Other:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Oppressed

 

My laptop died a few hours before completing this episode.  At this point I am guessing it was some kind of issue with the latest update.  It is currently a brick.  Good thing I spend a lot of time thinking about resilience otherwise this episode would not have happened.