Digital Trust & Security Seminar Series: Silje Anderdal Bakken
Digital Futures - Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series This seminar features our guest speaker, Silje Anderdal Bakken, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo. Talk Title: 'Online Drug Markets: How is the Digitalisation of Social Interaction Changing Illegal Markets?' Summary: This presentation focuses on illegal drug markets on social media and ways these new forms of interacting changes illegal markets. Some of the topics that will be discussed is how the selling of illegal drugs in online platforms is formed by the online context, as well as by locally bounded factors. Social media drug dealing is shaped by both the digital context and the physical, local contours of the market. Despite social media platforms being global – there are important local differences in the ways drug dealing interactions takes place on these. On one side, platform layouts dictate sellers’ self-presentations and marketing options, such as the use of visual and textual communication. While, on the other, locally based risk perceptions and cultural influences shape sellers’ online behaviours like risk taking and who to trust. The use of digital communication platforms also changes illegal drug markets more broadly by introducing new sets of skills, which further opens the way for new actors to enter these illegal markets, without the right street culture or social network.
Digital Futures - Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series
This seminar features our guest speaker, Silje Anderdal Bakken, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo.
Talk Title: 'Online Drug Markets: How is the Digitalisation of Social Interaction Changing Illegal Markets?'
Summary:
This presentation focuses on illegal drug markets on social media and ways these new forms of interacting changes illegal markets. Some of the topics that will be discussed is how the selling of illegal drugs in online platforms is formed by the online context, as well as by locally bounded factors. Social media drug dealing is shaped by both the digital context and the physical, local contours of the market. Despite social media platforms being global – there are important local differences in the ways drug dealing interactions takes place on these. On one side, platform layouts dictate sellers’ self-presentations and marketing options, such as the use of visual and textual communication. While, on the other, locally based risk perceptions and cultural influences shape sellers’ online behaviours like risk taking and who to trust. The use of digital communication platforms also changes illegal drug markets more broadly by introducing new sets of skills, which further opens the way for new actors to enter these illegal markets, without the right street culture or social network.
