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Bots are Less Central than Verified Accounts during Contentious Political Events
2020
Social Science Research Network
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We show that verified accounts are significantly more visible than unverified bots in the coverage of the events but also that bots attract more attention than human accounts. ...
Here, we assess the impact that bots had on the dissemination of content during two contentious political events that evolved in real time on social media. ...
González-Bailón and De Domenico https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2013443118 Bots are less central than verified accounts during contentious political events Downloaded by guest on June 6, 2021 ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.3637121
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Bots fired: examining social bot evidence in online mass shooting conversations
2019
Palgrave Communications
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Furthermore, while social bots accounted for fewer than 1% of total corpus user contributors, social network analysis centrality measures identified many bots with significant prominence in the conversation ...
Social bots, or automated software agents, are one such risk, as they can serve to amplify or distort potential narratives associated with extreme events such as mass shootings. ...
The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the U.S. ...
doi:10.1057/s41599-019-0359-x
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Popular with the Robots: Accusation and Automation in the Argentine Presidential Elections, 2015
2016
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society
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different types of political event occurring in the same country. ...
a Twitter campaign via '50,000' fake accounts. ...
occur more than the type of event itself. ...
doi:10.1007/s10767-016-9233-7
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Popular with the Robots: Accusation and Automation in the Argentine Presidential Elections, 2015
2015
Social Science Research Network
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different types of political event occurring in the same country. ...
a Twitter campaign via '50,000' fake accounts. ...
occur more than the type of event itself. ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2700809
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Promoting and countering misinformation during Australia's 2019-2020 bushfires: A case study of polarisation
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2022
arXiv
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Here we study Twitter communities spreading this misinformation during the population-level event, and investigate the role of online communities and bots. ...
Though we did not find many bots, the most bot-like accounts were social bots, which present as genuine humans. ...
Here we study Twitter communities spreading this misinformation during the population-level event, and investigate the role of online communities and bots. ...
arXiv:2201.03153v1
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Towards Understanding the Information Ecosystem Through the Lens of Multiple Web Communities
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2019
arXiv
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Also, we lack an understanding of what the role and impact of emerging communities and services on the Web are, and how such communities are exploited by bad actors that spread false and weaponized information ...
The Web consists of numerous Web communities, news sources, and services, which are often exploited by various entities for the dissemination of false information. ...
., if an event spans 100 days, the missing Twitter data has less of an effect than if the event only spanned two days. ...
arXiv:1911.10517v1
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Sourcing and Automation of Political News and Information During Three European Elections
2019
Social Media + Society
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To understand what users are sharing in their political communication, we analyzed large volumes of political conversation over a major social media platform—in real-time and native languages during campaign ...
information including political parties and government agencies are in decline. ...
on Political Discourse in Europe," Proposal 648311, 2015-2020, Philip N. ...
doi:10.1177/2056305119863147
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#Iranvotes: Political Discourse on Iranian Twitter During the 2016 Parliamentary Elections
2016
Social Science Research Network
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Although they sometimes engage with topical issues and news events, they are generally less interested in such topics compared to the more overtly political segments of the network. ...
mean the relationships are much less 47 Marc A. ...
The most significant trend we can identify is that reformist-oriented campaigns are far more widely shared and effective than their conservative counterparts. ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2799271
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Networked Gatekeeping and Networked Framing on #Egypt
2013
The International Journal of Press/Politics
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prior seminal work that places emphasis on news framing and its relevance to sociocultural context, this study describes, maps, and explains evolving patterns of communication on Twitter through the events ...
Actors who are buoyed up to prominence or eliteness by the gatekeeping actions of the network are able to generate larger informational cascades or social contagion to their information flows than ordinary ...
In times of political uprisings, it is important to remember that these are human revolutions, ultimately enabled by human cost and sacrifice (York 2011; Zuckerman 2011) . ...
doi:10.1177/1940161212474472
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Prophets and Loss: How "Soft Facts" on Social Media Influenced the Brexit Campaign and Social Reactions to the Murder of Jo Cox MP
2019
Policy & Internet
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By developing the concept of "digital prophecy," the article explores how influence is exerted by online prophets who were connecting current events to past grievances, to advance negative predictions ...
There is a growing appreciation that digital communications environments are especially conducive to the dissemination of these kinds of information. ...
These thirty communities divided into two classes: those characterized by one highly central user who was the original poster of more than 90 percent of the communities' reposting activities (type 1), ...
doi:10.1002/poi3.203
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Organization in the crowd: peer production in large-scale networked protests
2014
Information, Communication & Society
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Although local issues and political contexts differed dramatically, all of the uprisings were characterized by local physical occupations and protest activities in which core participants were linked by ...
How are crowd-enabled networks activated, structured, and maintained in the absence of recognized leaders, common goals, or conventional organization, issue framing, and action coordination? ...
We cannot verify that they were city-related accounts. ...
doi:10.1080/1369118x.2013.870379
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Internet, Social Media and Conflict Studies Can Greater Interdisciplinarity Solve the Analytical Deadlocks in Cybersecurity Research?
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2019
arXiv
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Then, it moves onto a more detailed account of how digital conflict studies have been addressing some of these deadlocks by focusing individually on the literature on onset, mobilization, targeting, intensity ...
article concludes with the suggestion that the cybersecurity scholarship could move past its own deadlocks by building more granular and dedicated research datasets and establishing mechanisms to share event ...
Absent of a long-term, scientific event dataset, cybersecurity researchers of IR have to work with an ambiguous sample of cybersecurity events that will structurally remain insufficient for robust theory-building ...
arXiv:1905.01777v1
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Spontaneous Collective Action: Peripheral Mobilization During the Arab Spring
2017
American Political Science Review
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Models of disease and information diffusion suggest that those central to a social network (the core) should have a greater ability to mobilize others than those who are less well-connected. ...
Those on the periphery are shown to be responsible for changing levels of protest, with some evidence suggesting that the core's mobilization efforts lead to fewer protests. ...
media organization (Vodafone and Wikileaks are their examples), bloggers, activists, digerati, political actors, celebrities, researchers, bots, and a residual category. ...
doi:10.1017/s0003055416000769
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Post-Truth: Hegemony on Social Media and Implications for Sustainability Communication
2019
Sustainability
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Misinformation campaigns are distorting the line between fact and falsity on social media platforms, and there has been a profound shift in the way that social media users consume and interact with information ...
Dataset 2 shows that 'weather', 'climate', and 'Trump' are central concepts, while words like 'hoax' suggest dialogue may be contentious. ...
Dataset 2 shows that 'weather', 'climate', and 'Trump' are central concepts, while words like 'hoax' suggest dialogue may be contentious. ...
doi:10.3390/su11072120
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Covid-19, Fourth industrial revolution and the future of elections in Africa
2020
Journal of African Elections
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The election cycle recognises elections as continuous processes rather than isolated events. ...
According to Adebayo ( A 2019 study by EISA on political party campaign financing during South Africa's 2019 general elections, found that political parties' campaign events absorbed a substantial part ...
doi:10.20940/jae/2020/v19i2a1
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