Ben Collier

Lecturer in Digital Methods

Ben.Collier@ed.ac.uk

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Criminal justice Culture Data & Digital Digital sociology Governance & Democracy Methods Science, knowledge and policy Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies Studies of information and communication technology Technology and material culture

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Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

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Collier B, Stewart J. Case study: Targeted advertising, advanced marketing and behaviour change. In Building Trust in the Digital Era: Achieving Scotland’s Aspirations as an Ethical Digital Nation: Digital Ethics Expert Group Report. Scottish Government. 2022. p. 18-22	View
Collier B, Stewart J. Public awareness of data use and sharing: Case study: Targeted advertising, advanced marketing and behaviour change. In Building Trust in the Digital Era: Achieving Scotland’s Aspirations as an Ethical Digital Nation: Case Study Supplement. Scottish Government. 2022. p. 4-6	View
Collier B, Cowan S. Queer conflicts, concept capture and category co-option: The importance of context in the state collection and recording of sex/gender data. Social and Legal Studies. 2022 Oct 1;31(5):746-772. https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639211061409	View
Collier B. Onion and on and on: Hacking the Internet with Tor. Hack_Curio, 2022.	View
Collier B, Clayton R. A “sophisticated attack”? Innovation, technical sophistication, and creativity in the cybercrime ecosystem. 2022. Paper presented at Workshop on the Economics of Information Security.	View
Collier B, Flynn G, Stewart J, Thomas D. Influence government: Exploring practices, ethics, and power in the use of targeted advertising by the UK state. Big Data and Society. 2022 Feb 24;9(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517221078756	View
Collier B, Flynn G, Stewart J, Thomas DR. SCCJR briefing paper: Influence government: Exploring practices, ethics, and power in the use of targeted advertising by the UK state. The Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research, 2021. 22 p.	View
Collier B, Clayton R, Hutchings A, Thomas D. Cybercrime is (often) boring: Infrastructure and alienation in a deviant subculture. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society (BJC). 2021 Sep;61(5):1407–1423. azab026. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azab026	View
Collier B, Stewart J. Privacy worlds: Exploring values and design in the development of the Tor anonymity network. Science, Technology, & Human Values (ST&HV). 2021 Aug 27. https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439211039019	View
Bada M, Chua YT, Collier B, Pete I. Exploring masculinities and perceptions of gender in online cybercrime subcultures. In Weulen Kranenbarg M, Leukfeldt R, editors, Cybercrime in Context: The human factor in victimization, offending, and policing. 1 ed. Springer International Publishing. 2021. p. 237-257 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60527-8_14	View
Horgan S, Collier B, Jones R, Shepherd L. Re-territorialising the policing of cybercrime in the post-COVID-19 era: Towards a new vision of local democratic cyber policing. Journal of Criminal Psychology. 2021 Aug 3;11(3):222-239. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCP-08-2020-0034	View
Siu GA, Collier B, Hutchings A. Follow the money: The relationship between currency exchange and illicit behaviour in an underground forum. 2021. Paper presented at Workshop on Actors and Cyber-Crime Operations (IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2021).	View
Anderson R, Clayton R, Böhme R, Collier B. Silicon den: Cybercrime is entrepreneurship. 2021. Paper presented at Workshop on the Economics of Information Security.	View
Collier B. Infrastructural power: Dealing with abuse, crime, and control in the Tor anonymity network. In Weulen Kranenbarg M, Leukfeldt R, editors, Cybercrime in Context: The human factor in victimization, offending, and policing. 1 ed. Springer, Cham. 2021. p. 283-301. (Crime and Justice in Digital Society). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60527-8_16	View
Matthews B, Collier B, McVie S, Dibben C. Understanding digital drug markets through the geography of postal drug deliveries in Scotland. European Journal of Criminology. 2021 Mar 4. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370821997323	View
Collier B, Thomas DR, Clayton R, Hutchings A, Chua YT. Influence, infrastructure, and recentering cybercrime policing: Evaluating emerging approaches to online law enforcement through a market for cybercrime services. Policing and Society. 2021 Feb 10. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2021.1883608	View
Vu A, Hughes J, Pete I, Collier B, Chua YT, Shumailov I et al. Turning up the dial: The evolution of a cybercrime market through set-up, stable, and Covid-19 eras. In IMC '20: Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2020. p. 551–566. (Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference). https://doi.org/10.1145/3419394.3423636	View
Turk K, Pastrana S, Collier B. A tight scrape: methodological approaches to cybercrime research data collection in adversarial environments. In 2020 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW). IEEE Xplore. 2020. (IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops). https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW51379.2020.00064	View
Collier B, Clayton R, Hutchings A, Thomas D. Cybercrime is (often) boring: maintaining the infrastructure of cybercrime economies. 2020. Paper presented at Workshop on the Economics of Information Security. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.53769	View
Matthews B, McVie S, Dibben C, Collier B. Postal Delivery of Illegal Consignments into Scotland: Dataset Description. Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research , 2020.	View
Collier B. The power to structure: exploring social worlds of privacy, technology and power in the Tor Project. Information, Communication and Society. 2020 Feb 24. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1732440	View
Hughes J, Collier B, Hutchings A. From playing games to committing crimes: A multi-technique approach to predicting key actors on an online gaming forum. In 2019 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime). IEEE Xplore. 2019. (APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime)). https://doi.org/10.1109/eCrime47957.2019.9037586	View
Chua YT, Collier B. Fighting the “blackheart airports”: Internal policing in the Chinese censorship circumvention ecosystem. In 2019 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime). IEEE Xplore. 2019. (APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime)). https://doi.org/10.1109/eCrime47957.2019.9037500	View
Collier B, Thomas D, Clayton R, Hutchings A. Booting the booters: Evaluating the effects of police interventions in the market for denial-of-service attacks. In IMC '19: Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2019. p. 50-64. (Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference). https://doi.org/10.1145/3355369.3355592	View
Hutchings A, Collier B. Inside out: Characterising cybercrime committed inside and outside the workplace. In 2019 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW). IEEE Xplore. 2019. p. 481-490. (IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops). https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW.2019.00060	View

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