Who would steal a web site?

For the preparation of a course, I wanted to post a link to the CYBEREMOTIONS website. CYBEREMOTIONS was a four-year research project funded by the European Union from 2009 to 2013. Below a bit more details about the project. I guess the time ran out that we had originally paid for 10 years or something. Now, someone not only took the domain but stole the content and pretends to have been involved in the project. At the bottom are the names of two individuals with photos that do not seem to exist - I googled their names and pictures. Likely, the images are AI-generated. There is no address on the page and no way to contact anybody. The Whois service returns essentially an empty record. I had thought to register a domain one would have to give a name and an address, but this info is all empty. Odd. Only the name of some broker service that offers against money to start negotiations. If that is not a crooked racket, I do not know what. My colleagues and I do not have the time to deal with some low-life crooks, but I hope at some point they will free it up.

Fake CYBEREMOTIONS collaborators ->

CYBEREMOTIONS

CYBEREMOTIONS (Collective emotions in cyberspace) was a large-scale integrating project funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) in FET ICT domain theme 3: ‘Science of complex systems for socially intelligent ICT’. It started in February 2009 for a period of four years, and gathered approximately 40 scientists from Austria, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland, and United Kingdom. Our goal was to understand the role of collective emotions in creating, forming and breaking-up ICT mediated communities and to prepare the background for the next generation of emotionally-intelligent ICT services. Here is a list of the partner teams:

• Centre of Excellence for Complex Systems Research, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)

• Virtual Reality Lab, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)

• Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, University of Wolverhampton (United Kingdom)

• Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Austria)

• Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

• Department of Theoretical Physics, Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)

• Emotion, Cognition, Social Context laboratory (X lab) Constructor University (Germany)

• IKM Research Group, Berlin Institute of Technology (Germany)

• Gemius SA (Poland)

Project Management Committee

Each institution was represented on the Project Management Committee by a work package leader:

• Prof. Dr. Janusz Holyst – Warsaw University of Technology, Poland (CyberEmotions Coordinator)

• Prof. Dr. Daniel Thalmann – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

• Prof. Dr. Michael Thelwall – University of Sheffield (then Wolverhampton), United Kingdom

• Dr. Marcin Skowron – Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria

• Prof. Dr. Frank Schweitzer – ETH Zurich, Switzerland

• Prof. Dr. Bosiljka Tadic – Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

• Prof. Dr. Arvid Kappas – Constructor University, Germany

• Dr. Matthias Trier, Asst. Prof. – University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands & TU Berlin, Germany

• Anna Borowiec – Gemius SA, Poland

Advisory Board

Three internationally renowned scientists formed CyberEmotions’ Advisory Board:

• Prof. Dr. Roddy Cowie – Professor of Psychology at Queen’s University, Northern Ireland

• Prof. Dr. Jeff Johnson – Professor of Complexity Science and Design at The Open University, United Kingdom

• Prof. Dr. Peter Richmond – Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Here are a couple of publications stemming from the CYBEREMOTIONS project

Chmiel A, Sienkiewicz J, Thelwall M, Paltoglou G, Buckley K, Kappas A, et al. (2011). Collective Emotions Online and Their Influence on Community Life. PLoS ONE 6(7): e22207. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022207

Garcia, D., Kappas, A., Küster, D., & Schweitzer, F. (2016). The dynamics of emotions in online interaction. R. Soc. Open Sci.3160059 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160059

Holyst, J.A. (Ed.) (2011). Cyberemotions: Collective Emotions in Cyberspace. Springer. (link)