EFFECT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES ON CRIMINAL ACT: THE CASE OF DIGITAL CRIME ON INTERNET NEWS

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    Makale Başlık EFFECT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES ON CRIMINAL ACT: THE CASE OF DIGITAL CRIME ON INTERNET NEWS
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    Information technologies, which eliminate the boundaries of time and space, are effective in all areas of social and individual life with the opportunities and possibilities they provide. Recent practices created by digital transformation reveal new personal and social profiles and differentiate. So much so that, like many of our daily actions, crime types are gradually becoming digital, changing their scope and nature, and becoming more easily realizable. Crimes that come to the fore with digitalization make themselves felt as an important security problem with actions that directly target the information systems, their data, and integrity. From this perspective, in this study, it is aimed to determine the effect of increasing technological opportunities on criminal acts by examining the types of crimes whose scope and nature changed with information technologies. In the context of internet news, fraudulence methods were determined as the sample, and a total of 464 news articles on hurriyet.com.tr, which included the word fraud and were determined to have the most content related to fraudulence between 2008 and 2019, were taken into consideration. Content analysis technique was used in the study, and the ways and means of processing fraudulent activity were categorized and classified depending on the realization methods. In the context of the results of the research, it has been found that technological advances have transformed traditional criminal acts and instrumentalized digitalization.
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    Information technologies, which eliminate the boundaries of time and space, are effective in all areas of social and individual life with the opportunities and possibilities they provide. Recent practices created by digital transformation reveal new personal and social profiles and differentiate. So much so that, like many of our daily actions, crime types are gradually becoming digital, changing their scope and nature, and becoming more easily realizable. Crimes that come to the fore with digitalization make themselves felt as an important security problem with actions that directly target the information systems, their data, and integrity. From this perspective, in this study, it is aimed to determine the effect of increasing technological opportunities on criminal acts by examining the types of crimes whose scope and nature changed with information technologies. In the context of internet news, fraudulence methods were determined as the sample, and a total of 464 news articles on hurriyet.com.tr, which included the word fraud and were determined to have the most content related to fraudulence between 2008 and 2019, were taken into consideration. Content analysis technique was used in the study, and the ways and means of processing fraudulent activity were categorized and classified depending on the realization methods. In the context of the results of the research, it has been found that technological advances have transformed traditional criminal acts and instrumentalized digitalization.
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