Wikipedia Articles

The following are Wikipedia articles on digital crime or control, broadly conceived, or on general matters useful to studying the digital crime problem. Wikipedia provides a better “textbook” than most textbooks. It has the potential to be better than all. Why? It is free to use and easily accessible. Its coverage is expansive, accurate, and regularly updated. Where lacking, anyone can fill the gap because articles can be edited and created. This democratizes the process, spreading the workload instead of concentrating it in the hands of a small group of authors and publishers.

For more information on Wikipedia’s use in the classroom (proverbial or real), visit wikiedu.org and Instructor Basics: How to Use Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool. On its general value as a source of information, see:

• Chesney, Thomas. 2006. An Empirical Examination of Wikipedia’s Credibility. First Monday 11. (Learn more + open access.)

• Giles, Jim. 2005. Internet Encyclopaedias Go Head to Head. Nature 438:900-901. (Learn more + open access.)

• Magnus, P. D. 2008. Early Responses to False Claims in Wikipedia. First Monday 13. (Learn more + open access.)

• Niederer, Sabine, and Jose van Dijck. 2010. Wisdom of the Crowd or Technicality of Content? Wikipedia as a Sociotechnical System. New Media & Society 12:1368-1387. (Learn more.)

• Reagle, Joseph M., Jr., and Jackie L. Koerner. 2020. Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution. MIT Press. (Learn more.)

• Reagle, Joseph M., Jr., and Lawrence Lessig. 2012. Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia. MIT Press. (Learn more.)

• Rogers, Richard. 2013. Digital Methods. MIT Press. (Learn more.)

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Digital Crime

Broad aspects of digital crime and harm

• Cyberattack

• Cybercrime

• Cyberterrorism

• Cyberwarfare

Specific aspects of digital crime and harm

• Carding

• Cryptocurrency (not a crime/harm but need to know about it)

• Child Grooming

• Copyright Infringement

• Cyberbullying

• Cyberstalking

• Child Pornography

• Darknet Markets

• Darkweb

• Data Theft

• Denial-of-Service Attacks

• Hacker

• Identity Theft

• Internet Fraud

• Malware

• Online Predator

• Phishing

• Security Hacker

• Spamming

• Viruses

Digital Control

Broad aspects of digital control

• Automotive Security

• Computer Security (i.e., cybersecurity)

• Information Security

• Internet Security

• Mobile Security

• Network Security

Specific aspects of digital control

• Application Security

• Antivirus Software

• Authentication

• Authorization

• Computer & Network Surveillance

• Computer Access Control

• Data-Centric Security

• Digital Rights Management

• Encryption

• Firewall

• Intrusion Detection System

• Mobile Secure Gateway

• Runtime Application Self-Protection

• Secure by Default

• Secure by Design

• Secure Coding

• Security-focused Operating Systems

General Background Info

Broad aspects of crime and control

• Crime

• Social Control

• Security

• Law

• Prevention

• Surveillance

• Punishment

Computers et cetera

• Computer

• Computer Code & Computer Language

• Computer Program

• Computer Programming

• Operating System

• Server

• Network

• Internet of Things

• Software

• Hardware

Broad aspects of digital technology or society

• Electronics

• Signal

• Data

• Media

• Culture

• Economy

• Currency

• Divide

Academic approaches to the digital crime problem

• Evidence-Based Practice

• Social Science

• Criminology

• Computer Science

• Information Systems