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Monica T. Whitty

Monica T. Whitty

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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39
Citations
7109
World Ranking
5632
National Ranking
404

Overview

Monica T. Whitty is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and has a multidisciplinary research profile spanning computer science and social sciences. Their work most prominently addresses issues related to cybercrime, information security, and the social dynamics of digital communication.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Computer Science
  • Social Sciences

Within these broader areas, their research delves into subfields such as:

  • Information Systems
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Signal Processing

Monica T. Whitty's work focuses on various key topics, including:

  • Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
  • Information and Cyber Security
  • Spam and Phishing Detection
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Network Security and Intrusion Detection
  • Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies

Some of the venues where they have frequently published include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Information and Computer Security
  • Computers & Security
  • Journal of Language and Social Psychology
  • European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research

Recent publications by Monica T. Whitty cover a range of topics related to cybercrime and psychology, listed below with their publication year and venue:

  • Is There a Scam for Everyone? Psychologically Profiling Cyberscam Victims, 2020, European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research
  • Drug mule for love, 2021, Journal of Financial Crime

Other relevant recent papers from the broader field, though not authored by Whitty, include:

  • How can organizations develop situation awareness for incident response: A case study of management practice, 2020, Computers & Security
  • Language, Psychology, and New New Media: The Hyperpersonal Model of Mediated Communication at Twenty-Five Years, 2020, Journal of Language and Social Psychology
  • DAD: A Distributed Anomaly Detection system using ensemble one-class statistical learning in edge networks, 2021, Future Generation Computer Systems

Monica T. Whitty collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Christopher Ruddy
  • David Keatley
  • Hassan Jamil
  • Nour Moustafa
  • Marthie Grobler

Best Publications

  • Revealing the 'real' me, searching for the 'actual' you: Presentations of self on an internet dating site

    Monica T. Whitty

  • Pushing the Wrong Buttons: Men's and Women's Attitudes toward Online and Offline Infidelity

    Monica Therese Whitty

  • Cyberspace Romance: The Psychology of Online Relationships

    Monica T. Whitty;Adrian N. Carr

  • Age/sex/location: Uncovering the social cues in the development of online relationships

    Monica T. Whitty;Jeff Gavin

  • Liar, Liar! An examination of how open, supportive and honest people are in Chat Rooms

    Monica Therese Whitty

  • Understanding Insider Threat: A Framework for Characterising Attacks

    Jason R.C. Nurse;Oliver Buckley;Philip A. Legg;Michael Goldsmith

  • The realness of cybercheating: men's and women's representations of unfaithful internet relationships

    Monica T. Whitty

  • Online recreation: The relationship between loneliness, Internet self-efficacy and the use of the Internet for entertainment purposes

    Monica T. Whitty;Deborah McLaughlin

  • The online dating romance scam: causes and consequences of victimhood

    Tom Buchanan;Monica T. Whitty

  • Cyber-Flirting Playing at Love on the Internet

    Monica Therese Whitty

  • The Online Romance Scam: A Serious Cybercrime

    Monica T. Whitty;Tom Buchanan

  • Truth, Lies and Trust on the Internet

    Monica T. Whitty;Adam N. Joinson

  • The Scammers Persuasive Techniques Model Development of a Stage Model to Explain the Online Dating Romance Scam

    Monica T. Whitty

  • Individual Differences in Cyber Security Behaviors: An Examination of Who Is Sharing Passwords

    Monica T. Whitty;James Doodson;Sadie Creese;Duncan Hodges

  • The online dating romance scam : the psychological impact on victims - both financial and non-financial

    Monica T Whitty;Tom Buchanan

  • New rules in the workplace: Applying object-relations theory to explain problem Internet and email behaviour in the workplace

    Monica T. Whitty;Adrian N. Carr

  • Emotional and sexual infidelity offline and in cyberspace.

    Monica T. Whitty;Laura-Lee Quigley

  • Liberating or debilitating? An examination of romantic relationships, sexual relationships and friendships on the Net

    Monica T. Whitty

  • Netiquette within married couples: Agreement about acceptable online behavior and surveillance between partners

    Ellen J. Helsper;Monica T. Whitty

  • Anatomy of the online dating romance scam

    Monica T Whitty

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam Joinson
Adam Joinson University of Bath
Ellen Helsper
Ellen Helsper London School of Economics and Political Science
William H. Dutton
William H. Dutton University of Oxford
Mark D. Griffiths
Mark D. Griffiths Nottingham Trent University
Nour Moustafa
Nour Moustafa University of New South Wales
Marcia S. Katigbak
Marcia S. Katigbak Washington State University
Joseph B. Walther
Joseph B. Walther University of California, Santa Barbara
A. Timothy Church
A. Timothy Church Washington State University
Ronald E. Rice
Ronald E. Rice University of California, Santa Barbara
Lorraine Sheridan
Lorraine Sheridan Curtin University

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