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Social Media, Political Polarization, and Political Disinformation: A Review of the Scientific Literature
2018
Social Science Research Network
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on social media sites are frequently negative and uncivil, which contributes to the rise in affective polarization. ...
Cited of the political information being consumed, which limits its potential to increase political knowledge. (2) The consumption of political information through social media increases cross-cutting ...
Scholars have developed a number of bot-detection systems ). ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.3144139
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Charting the Landscape of Online Cryptocurrency Manipulation
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2020
arXiv
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Whereas on Discord we found a negligible level of deception, on Telegram we retrieved 296 channels involved in pump-and-dump and 432 involved in Ponzi schemes, accounting for a striking 20% of the total ...
Moreover, we observed that 93% of the invite links shared by Twitter bots point to Telegram pump-and-dump channels, shedding light on a little-known social bot activity. ...
As social bots evolve, online content manipulation goes undetected even by platform administrators (Cresci et al. 2017b) , with consequent profound impact on content popularity and activity in social ...
arXiv:2001.10289v1
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Discovering Spotify - A Thematic Introduction
2017
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
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The tech identity, however, was somewhat dubious even in 2012 and has become increasingly harder to sustain. Advertisement serves an illustrative case in point. ...
One main problem is how to measure inflation: to establish a price index, it is necessary to quantify differences in quality between last year's products and this year's products. ...
doi:10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1792130
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Post-Truth, Polarization and Other Emotional Threats to Democracy
2020
Nordicum-Mediterraneum
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How can we bring back rationality in public deliberation and political discourse? ...
In this short paper I will try to answer these questions focusing on the role of emotions in contemporary democracies and the connections between post-truth, polarization and populism, while assessing ...
bots, inflated controversial viewpoints at the fringes of the political spectrum, and hacked political actors across the globe. ...
doi:10.33112/nm.15.2.2
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Italian Twitter semantic network during the Covid-19 epidemic
2021
EPJ Data Science
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23rd of March 2020 and the 23rd of April 2020) and study the extent to which various discursive communities are exposed to d/misinformation arguments. ...
In this sense, detecting the presence of malicious narratives and identifying the kinds of users that are more prone to spread them represent the first step to limit the persistence of the former ones. ...
Social-bots Social bots, or simply bots, are social accounts governed-completely or partly-by pieces of software that automatically create, share and like contents on Twitter and other platforms. ...
doi:10.1140/epjds/s13688-021-00301-x
pmid:34518792
pmcid:PMC8427161
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Italian Twitter semantic network during the Covid-19 epidemic
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2021
arXiv
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23rd of March 2020 and the 23rd of April 2020) and study the extent to which various discursive communities are exposed to d/misinformation arguments. ...
In this sense, detecting the presence of malicious narratives and identifying the kinds of users that are more prone to spread them represent the first step to limit the persistence of the former ones. ...
Social-bots Social bots, or simply bots, are social accounts governed -completely or partly -by pieces of software that automatically create, share and like contents on Twitter and other platforms. ...
arXiv:2106.05815v1
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Egypt Digital Rights Landscape Report
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2021
Digital Rights in Closing Civic Space: Lessons from Ten African Countries
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) the resulting reduction in digital rights makes it impossible to achieve the kind of inclusive governance defined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ...
They analyse how the openings and closings of online civic space affect citizens' digital rights. ...
ids.ac.uk Digital Rights in Closing Civic Space: Lessons from Ten African Countries Zimbabwe Digital Rights Landscape Report ...
doi:10.19088/ids.2021.014
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Comparing Public-Private Partnership Infrastructure Financing Approach in a Developing and Developed Economy
2019
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This study compares the strength of PPP financing approach in a developed country (United Kingdom) and the limitations in a developing country (Nigeria), the largest economy in Africa by GDP. ...
It observes the missing gap between the practices and successes of both countries with the aim of fostering positive outcomes for PPP in Nigeria. ...
, water supply, treatment and distribution systems, solid waste management, schools, urban transport systems, housing and healthcare. ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.2590681
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Financial Inclusion, Financial Regulation, and Financial Education in Thailand
2015
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Using survey information and other evidence, the paper identifies the gaps between desired and existing outcomes, the gap in unmet demand for financial products and services, the gap in financial education ...
enabling agencies, and the regulatory context that shape the existing provision of financial inclusion in Thailand. ...
From the 1960s until the early 1990s, the country experienced sustained and rapid growth, achieved at low and stable rates of inflation. ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2650235
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Comparing Public-Private Partnership Infrastructure Financing Approach in a Developing and Developed Economy
2019
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This study compares the strength of PPP financing approach in a developed country (United Kingdom) and the limitations in a developing country (Nigeria), the largest economy in Africa by GDP. ...
It observes the missing gap between the practices and successes of both countries with the aim of fostering positive outcomes for PPP in Nigeria. ...
Vol. 4, No. 1, 2019, pp. 33-62 http://ijbe.ielas.org/index.php/ijbe/index ISSN (online) 2545-4137 ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.2652711
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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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In its scale and complexity, 4IR could change humanity and human existence as we presently know it. ...
The study thus includes ways in which 4IR and unforeseen global emergencies like pandemics can impact future elections, with specific reference to Africa. ...
Moreira (2018) posits that social media ecosystems are already awash with bots that have the potential to threaten democracies worldwide. ...
doi:10.20940/jae/2020/v19i2a1
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Economic Principles of PoPCoin, a Democratic Time-based Cryptocurrency
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2020
arXiv
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PoPCoin proposes to leverage the unique historical opportunities that digital cryptocurrencies present for a "clean-slate" redesign of money, in particular around long-term equitability and sustainability ...
incentives opposite those created by conventional basic incomes. ...
This research was supported in part by U.S. Office of Naval Research grant N00014-19-1-2361 and by the AXA Research Fund. ...
arXiv:2011.01712v1
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Minds Online: The Interface between Web Science, Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind
2017
Foundations and Trends® in Web Science
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All: The authors would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their valuable insights and comments on an earlier version of the present review. ...
[402] , social bots are a potential threat to democracy, in the sense that they may artificially inflate support for a political candidate and thus influence the outcome of political elections. ...
Future social bots may thus be treated as kindred social cognizers of the online social realm. ...
doi:10.1561/1800000026
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Practicing Safe Computing: Message Framing, Self-View, and Home Computer User Security Behavior Intentions
2006
International Conference on Information Systems
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We manipulated individuals' goal frames (promotion versus prevention goal frame) and self-views (independent versus. interdependent self-view) in an experimental setting with 101 subjects and examined ...
In such a highly inter-dependent network, individual behaviors can have far-reaching consequences that transcend borders between people, organizations and nations. ...
In conclusion, the Internet is a critical component of infrastructure that sustains individuals, companies and nations and must be protected by the combined efforts of all Internet users. ...
dblp:conf/icis/HarringtonAA06
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Citizens Versus the Internet: Confronting Digital Challenges With Cognitive Tools
2020
Psychological Science in the Public Interest
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This online landscape holds multiple negative consequences for society, such as a decline in human autonomy, rising incivility in online conversation, the facilitation of political extremism, and the spread ...
Despite offering various benefits, online environments are also replete with smart, highly adaptive choice architectures designed primarily to maximize commercial interests, capture and sustain users' ...
We also thank Deb Ain and Rodney Atkins for editing the manuscript.
Notes ...
doi:10.1177/1529100620946707
pmid:33325331
pmcid:PMC7745618
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