That or the Fake (English "„the falsification "“, "„the swindle "“) is the US-American jargon term for a falsification or a cunning small fraud. That person, who exercises the fraud, is called Faker. The word is a typical example of net jargon, the vocabulary of humans, who feel connected the Internet culture.

Fake in the Internet context

Most frequently in recent time the term for the falsifications of such Faker is used, which in Internet forums or Chatrooms deliver unqualified comments, which are not seriously meant and annoy other Internet user using misleading personal data their own, to provoke or behind the light lead are. Fake so often serve for the trollen, and it is not uncommon the fact that a person under several different names announces itself and organizes so (for other not obvious) provoking a game of roles. Since the Faken with several identities is almost typical for many Trolle, the proof of several Fake can help to identify Trolle.

Faker, which arise under several names, are called also sock doll.

Often the Faker in the Internet, e.g. within a contact stock exchange, spends itself as completely different person. This persons of the own or also the other sex can be. Thus it slips e.g. as a man into the role of a woman, in order to flirt with Internet Usern or to drive in other way its Schabernack; also wrong age data and a misleading representation of physical characteristics are to be observed very frequently. In addition special caution is required with empiric reports or in medical Threads, if e.g. the forum operators themselves drive medicine products out etc. In the Paid4-Szene calls one persons Faker with technical measures try the Paid4-Anbieter too would amount to and more moneys to thus earn.

Further Faker are those persons, who in Chatrooms with (nearly) the same nod yourself other Chatter log in, in order to in this way pull original pitch name by the use of insult words the etc. by the dirt. In Chatrooms, which are based on the character font Arial, e.g. leave themselves. Nicks, which a small "„L "“or large "„I "“contains, problem-free faken, because the representation of these characters differs in no way. Also the number "„0 "“and the large "„O "“can be differentiated often hardly from each other.

Not each person, who arises in the Internet under wrong name or under wrong personal data, should be regarded however as Faker. It is quite usual in the culture of the Internets to arise under a fictitious identity. This serves for example to avoid Spam and other abuses and dangers. It can also help to be able to arise in Internet Communities more freely and more unrestrainedly than one would dare in "„the material life "“, or spielerisch different social roles to try out. Such behavior is considered generally as legitimate. As Fake it should be regarded only if it serves to implement abuses like described the here.

Fakes also by photo assembly developed, of prominent ones, are called falsified naked pictures as well as the Fahrzeugtuning of pictures with cars.

The term Fake is used also with in the Internet. In this case the term describes a file, which does not contain, which the file name states. Fakes are transferred for different reasons into exchange stock exchanges. For example the music and film industry manipulates files in such a way that contents of the file are mutilated or no longer readable. The person this file downloads is at to be annoyed so that it does not undertake further attempts the file to download again. Also files "„gefaked "“to spread around unknown files better by it a file name very much liked gotten.

Fake in the art context

"“The term of the Fake means MIME tables an imitation of another work of art, which refers contrary to the falsification to its falsified character. An artist reproduced photographies of Walker Evans; it presented these own photographies in a similar way like the model; the title,"” Sherrie Levine after Walker Evans "“, proves the work as appropriation, which reflects the changed contextual and conceptual conditions of the identical picture. The Fake therefore aims by means of an exact picture investigation at a art-historical process of knowing: The reproduction is not condemned any longer morally than falsification, but the Fake is regarded as criticism of the institution of the art and its ideology of the original. "“(Quotation by Stefan Romans)

See also: Falsification, deception, Turk (verb), Troll (Internet), pitch name

Fake as Manga series

Fake is also the title of a seventh-hasty Shonen Ai-Manga-series, which appeared also in German language and which tells history of a man couple at the Kriminalpolizei.

Literature

• Arnau, franc: The kind OF The Faker - 3.000 years OF Deception. Boston, Little Brown & company, 1959. LCC 61-5317.
• Exhibition catalog Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fakes and Forgeries, The Minneapolis Institut OF kind 11. Juli-29. September 1973
• Dutton, D. (OD.): The Forger' s kind, Berkeley, University OF California press, 1983.
• Fake, The new museum OF Contemporary kind (exhibition catalog), New York 1987.
• Jones, Mark, OD.: The kind OF Detection

Related links

• Romans, Stefan: '' The term of the Fake '', thesis Berlin 1998. With literature data.
• Fake Dow website from The Yes Men sees 2004 hoax

Articles in category "Fake"

We found here 13 articles.

Related Websites

We found here 3 related websites.

• BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Spot The Fake Smile
  Spot The Fake Smile Survey. ... This experiment is designed to test whether you can spot the difference between a fake smile and a real one ...


• Fake or Photo
  Fake or Foto The Challenge... Take a reality check... Today we're presented with images in movies, on TV, and in the press that are of such good quality we ...


• Fake Out
  Choose a word and try to guess its definition. Words grouped by age and ability levels.