Call for Papers! Special Issue of Applied Corpus Linguistics on ‘Corpus linguistic approaches to tackling online crime’ !
Edited by David Wright (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
This call seeks proposals for articles that draw on a corpus of language data and apply established or innovative techniques in corpus linguistics. Analyses should combine quantitative and qualitative approaches, rather than be purely computational or ‘black box’ methods. Ideally, articles will go beyond describing online crime and have clear implications for the ways in which corpus approaches can contribute to addressing of online crime. Articles analysing any language are welcomed that related to any kind of online, cyber-dependant or cyber-enabled crime, including but not limited to the following:
• Illicit and malicious online communication
• Dark web sites and forums
• Extremist communities
• Online grooming and child sexual abuse
• Trading illegal items in online marketplaces
• Scams and fraud
• Spam and phishing
• False accounts and identity assumption
• Obscene publications
• Cyberstalking, bullying and mobbing
• Harassment, threats and trolling
• Incitement, conspiracy and solicitation
• Disinformation and fake news
• Deception
• Plagiarism
• Manipulation, coercion and control
• Author identification and deanonymisation
The timeline of the issue :
• 1st July 2024 – deadline for article abstracts
• 31st July 2024 – response to abstracts
• 1st February 2025 – submission of full papers
• April 2025 – peer-review response
• June 2025 – revised submissions due (5 weeks after receipt of reviews)
• June-November 2025 – publication of papers as they are completed
• November 2025 – full volume completion
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