The multiple personas of an online child abuser

* Warning: Today’s episode contains descriptions of child sexual abuse material. *   In today’s episode, Dr Nicci MacLeod and Prof. Tim Grant are joined by Dr Emily Chiang, one of our Research Fellows at AIFL, about her research into identity performance in online child sexual abuse conversations. By tracing 17 different personas from a single perpetrator, Dr Chiang explored linguistic differences in identity performance and online grooming strategies. Together, Dr Chiang and our hosts go over how her research may help future grooming and child sex abuse cases.   Have a question for Nicci or Tim? Email us at [email protected] and we may answer it during an upcoming episode!   Check out the official AIFL blog for more forensic linguistic goodies here: https://medium.com/@AIFLblog   If you have been affected by any of the themes in this week’s episode, please contact one of these free resources:  https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/ https://www.helpguide.org/find-help   Production Team: Mark Round, Jordan Robertson, Neus Alberich Buera, Karolina Placzynta Sound: Mark Round Editing: Nicci MacLeod Visual design: George Grant Additional Voices: Karolina Placzynta With our thanks to Dr Emily Chiang and Dr Zoe Adams   Professor Tim Grant’s home page: Tim Grant - Aston Research Explorer  Dr Nicci MacLeod’s home page: Nicci MacLeod - Aston Research Explorer  Dr Emily Chiang’s home page: Emily Chiang - Aston Research Explorer   Both Tim and Emily are part of the Europewide Horizon SALVUS project looking at the investigation of online child abuse and exploitation across Europe. You can find out more about the SALVUS project here: https://salvusproject.eu   Research Papers: Deceptive identity performance: Offender moves and multiple identities in online child abuse conversations  Online grooming: moves and strategies  Do Perverted Justice chat logs contain examples of Overt Persuasio⁠n and Sexual Extortion? A research note respondingto Chiang and Grant 2017 and 2018.