Report Title:

Understanding the Current State of Knowledge and Future Directions of Doxing Research: A Social Cognitive Theory Perspective

Time: April 27th (Thursday) at 10am

Tencent Conference Number: 232 900 295

Introduction to report content:Doxing is the public release of personal information with harmful intentions. It is an emergent online practice that is used in social protest movements, for personal revenge, or even as a means of cyber-warfare. To amalgamate the ambiguous multi-disciplinary research, we summarize the current state of knowledge and identify directions for doxing research. To that end, this study applies social cognitive theory in a systematic review of doxing papers and provides an overview of current doxing research trends. The review shows that doxing research has been primarily focused on the environmental perspective, particularly the legal regulation of doxing while neglecting personal and behavioral factors. We identify a series of research questions to guide and inspire future research on the role of digital technologies in this emerging issue.

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Christy M.K. Cheung is a Professor of Management Information Systems and the Director of the Research Office at Hong Kong Baptist University. She is the awardee of a prestigious fellowship scheme - RGC Senior Research Fellow (研资局高级研究学者) and obtains HK$7.8 million (USD 1 million) to support her research work on cybermobbing behaviors on social media platforms. Her research interests include IT and User Behaviors, Responsible Use of IT, and IT and Societal Implications. She has published over 200 refereed articles in international journals and conference proceedings, including European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Information Systems Research, Journal of Information Technology, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, MIS Quarterly and among others. Her works have been cited around 30,000 times and over 9,000 times per Google Scholar and Web of Science, respectively, with an h-index of 73 and an i-10 index of 137. She has been recognized to be among the World’s Top 2 percent scholars, with a recent ranking of 29th out of ~18K scientists in the field of information systems (and ranked 1st among female scientists in the field of information systems). She recently ranked 1st among all MIS scholars in Hong Kong on the AIS Ranking List. Her academic leadership roles include being the Editor-in-Chief of Internet Research (since 2016). She successfully brought the journal from AJG Level 2 to Level 3 in 2021. She has also served in many different Senior Editor and Associate Editor roles for several major IS journals, including Decision Support Systems, Information & Management, Information Systems Journal, Information Systems Research, Journal of Association Information Systems, and others.

(Undertaken by: Department of Management Engineering, Research and Academic Center)