#2398. Hacking Humans? Social Engineering and the Construction of the “Deficient User” in Cybersecurity Discourses

November 2026publication date
Proposal available till 30-05-2025
4 total number of authors per manuscript4500 $

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Journal’s subject area:
Philosophy;
Anthropology;
Social Sciences (miscellaneous);
Sociology and Political Science;
Economics and Econometrics;
Human-Computer Interaction;
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Abstract:
The article analyzes how cybersecurity experts discursive definition of individual and collective security is redefining roles and responsibilities in the digital workplace. The results suggest a redistribution of institutional responsibility among individual users through three different social engineering storylines: the careless employee, the talking code and the social realm, and the correction of human flaws.
Keywords:
critical security studies; cybersecurity; hacking; politics of deficit construction; resilience; social engineering

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