Robert William Gehl^[1] is the F. Jay Taylor Endowed Research Chair of Communication at Louisiana Tech University^[2]. He is also an alumnus of the Fulbright Canada Research Chair program^[3] with research in the Genealogy of Alternative Social Media^[4], in addition to being an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and Film at the University of Calgary^[5]

Biography

In 2021, with academic researcher Sean T. Lawson, they coined the term "Masspersonal Social Engineering"^[6]which defines how online Social Engineering Hackers create personalized content on a mass scale using hacker tools of 1) trashing ^[7], 2) pretexting,^[8] 3) bullshitting ^[9], and 4) penetrating ^[10]built from tools of historical Social Engineering pioneers such as Ivy Lee^[11]^[12]and Doris Flieschman^[13]. In their published book, they explored Masspersonal Social engineering with efforts of Internet Research Agency^[14] and Cambridge Analytica^[15] during 2016 and 2020 elections.

Published works

Books

Robert W. Gehl
Robert W. Gehl
	Credit: CC-BY per https://fossacademic.tech/about.html Robert W. Gehl, Louisiana Tech University
Born	1979; Michigan, USA
Occupation	F. Jay Taylor Endowed Research Chair of Communication at Louisiana Tech University
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Gehl, Robert. Reverse Engineering Social Media: Software, Culture, and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism. Temple University Press, 2014.^[16]
Gehl, Robert, and Maria Bakardjieva. Socialbots and Their Friends. Routledge, 2017.^[17]
Gehl, Robert. Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P (The Information Society Series). 1st ed., The MIT Press, 2018.^[18]
Gehl, Robert, and Sean Lawson. Social Engineering. Amsterdam University Press, 2022^[19]

Journals

Gehl, Robert (March 2019). "Bugging out: Darknets as Parasites of Large-Scale Media Objects". Media, Culture & Society. 41 (2): 219–235. doi:10.1177/0163443718818379. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check |doi= value (help)</ref> Gehl, Robert W. “Power/Freedom on the Dark Web: A Digital Ethnography of the Dark Web Social Network.” New Media & Society, vol. 18, no. 7, Aug. 2016, pp. 1219–1235, doi:10.1177/1461444814554900.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

Recognition

Winner of the 2015 Association of Internet Researchers Nancy Baym^[20] Book Award^[21]

Bibliography

The Association of Internet Researchers. (2015). Nancy Baym Annual Book Award. Retrieved April 23, 2022, from https://aoir.org/awards/nancy-baym-annual-book-award/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_web
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking
https://nsiteam.com/masspersonal-social-engineering-manipulative-communication-at-the-intersections-of-cyber-and-information-operations/#:~:text=However%2C%20social%20engineering%20is%20now%20a%20mixture%20of,online%20bots%20and%20trolls%20to%20s NSITEAM.com]

References/Notes and references

^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehl
^ Louisiana Tech University. (n.d.). Robert Gehl. Louisiana Tech University Faculty Directory. Retrieved April 23, 2022, from https://liberalarts.latech.edu/faculty-staff-directory/single-entry/name/robert-gehl/
^ Fulbright Scholar Program. (2020). Fulbright. Https://Cies.Org/Grantee/Robert-Gehl. Retrieved April 23, 2022, from https://cies.org/grantee/robert-gehl
^ Fulbright Scholar Program. (2020). Fulbright. Https://Cies.Org/Grantee/Robert-Gehl. Retrieved April 23, 2022, from https://cies.org/grantee/robert-gehl
^ University of Calgary, Canada. (n.d.). University of Calgary Faculty. Retrieved April 23, 2022, from https://commfilm.ucalgary.ca/manageprofile/profiles/1-9942581
^ Gehl, Robert, and Sean Lawson. Social Engineering. Amsterdam University Press, p.18-19, 2022.ISBN 0262543451
^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_diving
^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretexting
^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit
^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penetration_test
^ https://lincolnparishjournal.com/2021/03/15/gehl-presents-research-at-dod-sponsored-speaker-series/
^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Lee
^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Fleischman
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^ [[2]]
^ Gehl, Robert. Reverse Engineering Social Media: Software, Culture, and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism. Temple University Press, 2014.ISBN 978-1439910351
^ Gehl, Robert, and Maria Bakardjieva. Socialbots and Their Friends. Routledge, 2017.ISBN 9781138639409
^ Gehl, Robert. Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P (The Information Society Series). 1st ed., The MIT Press, 2018.ISBN 9780262038263
^ Gehl, Robert, and Sean Lawson. Social Engineering. Amsterdam University Press, 2022.ISBN 978-0262543453
^ Nancy Baym. (2011, June 11). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Baym
^ The Association of Internet Researchers. (2015). Nancy Baym Annual Book Award. Retrieved April 23, 2022, from https://aoir.org/awards/nancy-baym-annual-book-award/

External links

Personal Website
Google Scholar Page
MIT Press
Researchgate Profile

[1] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehl

[2] Louisiana Tech University. (n.d.). Robert Gehl. Louisiana Tech University Faculty Directory. Retrieved April 23, 2022, from https://liberalarts.latech.edu/faculty-staff-directory/single-entry/name/robert-gehl/

[3] Fulbright Scholar Program. (2020). Fulbright. Https://Cies.Org/Grantee/Robert-Gehl. Retrieved April 23, 2022, from https://cies.org/grantee/robert-gehl

[4] Fulbright Scholar Program. (2020). Fulbright. Https://Cies.Org/Grantee/Robert-Gehl. Retrieved April 23, 2022, from https://cies.org/grantee/robert-gehl

[5] University of Calgary, Canada. (n.d.). University of Calgary Faculty. Retrieved April 23, 2022, from https://commfilm.ucalgary.ca/manageprofile/profiles/1-9942581

[6] Gehl, Robert, and Sean Lawson. Social Engineering. Amsterdam University Press, p.18-19, 2022.ISBN 0262543451

[7] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_diving

[8] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretexting

[9] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit

[10] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penetration_test

[11] ttps://lincolnparishjournal.com/2021/03/15/gehl-presents-research-at-dod-sponsored-speaker-series/

[12] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Lee

[13] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Fleischman

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[16] Gehl, Robert. Reverse Engineering Social Media: Software, Culture, and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism. Temple University Press, 2014.ISBN 978-1439910351

[17] Gehl, Robert, and Maria Bakardjieva. Socialbots and Their Friends. Routledge, 2017.ISBN 9781138639409

[18] Gehl, Robert. Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P (The Information Society Series). 1st ed., The MIT Press, 2018.ISBN 9780262038263

[19] Gehl, Robert, and Sean Lawson. Social Engineering. Amsterdam University Press, 2022.ISBN 978-0262543453

[20] Nancy Baym. (2011, June 11). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Baym

[21] The Association of Internet Researchers. (2015). Nancy Baym Annual Book Award. Retrieved April 23, 2022, from https://aoir.org/awards/nancy-baym-annual-book-award/

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