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FROM THE SILENT HOUSE MEME TO THE BLUE WHALE-GAME: THE STORYWORLDВ’S TRANSFORMATION
(STEF92 Technology, 2017, I. Volkova, S. Kadyrova, N. Rastorgueva, L. Algavi)
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The Blue Whale contest is believed to be ? sinister teenage ARG based on a series of tasks given by the administrators of social network VKontakte (VK) groups over the course of 50 days. The overall goal is committing suicide, on the 50th day. It is assumed that by May of 2016 the game has been a reason of more than 130 juveniles' suicides in Russia. While the allegation on 130 deaths caused by game originally mentioned in the “Novaya Gazeta” was not confirmed officially, the prototypes of the game apparently ...
SOCIAL SCIENCES: Section Media, Communications, and Misinformation in the Digital Age2017