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Students of George Mason University, as part of Professor T. Mills Kelly's course – "Lying about the past", have created two popular hoaxes: the "Edward Owens hoax," and the "Reddit serial killer hoax." It is a goal of the course to create a sweeping internet deception. As Prof. Kelly stated in the course's syllabus:〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://historyarthistory.gmu.edu/system/syllabuses/6500/original/HIST389-09-S12-Kelly.pdf?1327440993 )〕 ==Edward Owens hoax== The Edward Owens hoax was an historical hoax created by students at George Mason University in 2008 as a class project for "Lying About the Past". The students created a website and a fictitious entry on English Wikipedia about Edward Owens, purportedly a Virginia oyster fisherman born in 1853 who became a pirate. The hoax was reported as true in some media outlets. ===Hoax description=== Students published a blog and videos about then fictional Owens, created by the fictional student "Jane Browning." The blog asserted that Owens fell on hard times during the Long Depression of the 1870s and took up piracy in Chesapeake Bay to survive. The students wrote that he robbed smaller commercial vessels and wealthy pleasure boaters from Maryland using a punt gun to threaten his victims. The class created a fake will, which asserted that Owens and his crew eventually went back to oyster fishing.〔 The students later created a hoax biography of Owens on Wikipedia. After some media outlets and academics reported the hoax as factual, the class divulged the hoax.〔Matheson, Whitney. (Pop Candy blog ), USAToday.com, December 4, 2008〕〔("The Last American Pirate" ), December 4, 2008〕 ==Reddit serial killer hoax== The Reddit serial killer hoax was a second historical hoax perpetrated by “Lying about the past” class members. This one quickly failed, unlike the Owens hoax. In 2012, Professor Kelly taught the course for a second time in a similar format. The Reddit hoax, about an alleged serial killer named Joseph Scafe, was launched on the Reddit site on the 28th of April, and was first debunked in just over an hour.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Students of George Mason University, as part of Professor T. Mills Kelly's course – "Lying about the past", have created two popular hoaxes: the "Edward Owens hoax," and the "Reddit serial killer hoax." It is a goal of the course to create a sweeping internet deception. As Prof. Kelly stated in the course's syllabus:(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://historyarthistory.gmu.edu/system/syllabuses/6500/original/HIST389-09-S12-Kelly.pdf?1327440993 )==Edward Owens hoax==The Edward Owens hoax was an historical hoax created by students at George Mason University in 2008 as a class project for "Lying About the Past". The students created a website and a fictitious entry on English Wikipedia about Edward Owens, purportedly a Virginia oyster fisherman born in 1853 who became a pirate. The hoax was reported as true in some media outlets.===Hoax description===Students published a blog and videos about then fictional Owens, created by the fictional student "Jane Browning." The blog asserted that Owens fell on hard times during the Long Depression of the 1870s and took up piracy in Chesapeake Bay to survive. The students wrote that he robbed smaller commercial vessels and wealthy pleasure boaters from Maryland using a punt gun to threaten his victims. The class created a fake will, which asserted that Owens and his crew eventually went back to oyster fishing. The students later created a hoax biography of Owens on Wikipedia.After some media outlets and academics reported the hoax as factual, the class divulged the hoax.Matheson, Whitney. (Pop Candy blog ), USAToday.com, December 4, 2008("The Last American Pirate" ), December 4, 2008==Reddit serial killer hoax==The Reddit serial killer hoax was a second historical hoax perpetrated by “Lying about the past” class members. This one quickly failed, unlike the Owens hoax. In 2012, Professor Kelly taught the course for a second time in a similar format. The Reddit hoax, about an alleged serial killer named Joseph Scafe, was launched on the Reddit site on the 28th of April, and was first debunked in just over an hour.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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