Whale Finder:
Social Media Analysis of the Blue Whale Challenge
Overview
The Blue Whale Challenge consists of a set of tasks that must be completed in a duration of 50 days and had become a rage on online social media. The tasks of the “game” cause both physical and mental harm to the players with the final task being to take one's own life. Our aim was to understand the social media spread of the challenge and try to identify patterns in the behavior of possible players - victims and propagators.
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Role
Researcher
Developer
Team Members
Shaan Chopra
Abhinav Khattar
Karan Dabas
Kshitij Gupta
Advisor
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
Duration
8 months
Publications
Evils of Social Media: Case Study of the Blue Whale Challenge
Authors: Shaan Chopra, Abhinav Khattar, Karan Dabas, Kshitij Gupta & Ponnurangam Kumaraguru.
Venue: CHI4EVIL Workshop at Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2019.
Solidarity for Social Media-Based Epidemic: Case Study of the Blue Whale Challenge
Author: Shaan Chopra.
Venue: Solidarity Across Borders Workshop at Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW) 2018.
White or Blue, the whale gets its Vengeance: A Social Media Analysis of the Blue Whale Challenge (Technical Report)
Author: Abhinav Khattar*, Karan Dabas*, Kshitij Gupta*, Shaan Chopra* & Ponnurangam Kumaraguru.
Arxiv 2018
* joint first-authorship