Junk News on Military Affairs and National Security

Social media provides political news and information for both active duty military personnel and veterans. We[...]

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Topics Computational Propaganda Governance Social Media

Social Media, News and Political Information during the US Election: Was Polarizing Content Concentrated in Swing States?

...information distributed evenly around the country, or concentrated in swing states and particular parts of the[...]

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Topics Elections Governance Social Media

Junk News and Bots during the German Parliamentary Election: What are German Voters Sharing over Twitter?

Automation and propaganda can significantly impact public life during important policy debates, elections, and political crises.[...]

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Topics Elections Governance Social Media

Computational Propaganda Worldwide: Executive Summary

The Computational Propaganda Research Project at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, has researched the[...]

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Topics Computational Propaganda Social Media

Social Media and News Sources during the 2017 UK General Election

Platforms like Twitter and sources like Wikipedia are important parts of the information diet for many[...]

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Topics Elections Governance Social Media

Junk News and Bots during the 2017 UK General Election

Computational propaganda distributes large amounts of misinformation about politics and public policy over social media platforms.[...]

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Topics Elections Governance Social Media

Junk News and Bots during the French Presidential Election (Round II)

Computational propaganda distributes large amounts of misinformation about politics and public policy over social media platforms.[...]

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Junk News and Bots during the French Presidential Election (Round I)

Computational propaganda distributes large amounts of misinformation about politics and public policy over social media platforms.[...]

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Topics Elections Governance Social Media

Junk News and Bots during the German Federal Presidency Election: What Were German Voters Sharing Over Twitter?

Computational propaganda distributes large amounts of misinformation about politics and public policy over social media platforms.[...]

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Topics Elections Governance Social Media

Junk News and Bots during the U.S. Election: What Were Michigan Voters Sharing Over Twitter?

Computational propaganda distributes large amounts of misinformation about politics and public policy over social media platforms.[...]

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Topics Elections Governance Social Media

Social Media, Civic Engagement, and the Slactivism Hypothesis: Lessons from Mexico’s “El Bronco”

...be fleeting and vapid. Most attempts to answer this question involve public opinion data from the[...]

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Topics Civic Engagement Social Media

Bots and Automation over Twitter during the U.S. Election

Bots are social media accounts that automate interaction with other users, and political bots have been[...]

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Topics Elections Governance Social Media

Creativity and Critique: Gap Analysis of Support for Critical Research on Big Data

We define big data as large amounts of information, collected about many people, over multiple devices.[...]

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Topics Big Data

Bots and Automation over Twitter during the Third U.S. Presidential Debate

Bots are social media accounts that automate interaction with other users, and political bots have been[...]

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Topics Elections Governance Social Media

Political Communication, Computational Propaganda, and Autonomous Agents — Introduction

...the way they work to afford such control over interaction and organization can be unpredictable, even[...]

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Topics Governance

Automation, Big Data and Politics: A Research Review

We review the great variety of critical scholarship on algorithms, automation, and big data in areas[...]

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Topics Big Data Governance