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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

Academic article

Political Communication, Computational Propaganda, and Autonomous Agents — Introduction

The Internet certainly disrupted our understanding of what communication can be, who does it, how, and[...]

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Topics Governance

Academic article

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

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Bots and Automation over Twitter during the Second 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

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Bots and Automation over Twitter during the First 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

Academic article

Bots, #StrongerIn, and #Brexit: Computational Propaganda during the UK-EU Referendum

Bots are social media accounts that automate interaction with other users, and they are active on[...]

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Topics Social Media

Academic article

Political Bots and the Manipulation of Public Opinion in Venezuela

Social and political bots have a small but strategic role in Venezuelan political conversations. These automated[...]

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Topics Elections Governance

Academic article

Participation, Civics and Your Next Coffee Maker

This is a response to the article by Ethan Zuckerman “New Media, New Civics?” published in[...]

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Topics Governance

Working paper

Does Social Media Make a Difference in Election Campaigns? Digital Dividends in Brazil’s 2010 National Elections

Over the past decade, digital and mobile media have significantly changed the system of political communication[...]

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Topics Civic Engagement Elections Political Communication Social Media

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Are There Countries Whose Situations Worsened with the Arrival of the Internet?

(This post originally appeared on Freedom To Tinker, after @evgenymorozov tweeted that he would want help with a graph[...]

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Topics Governance

Academic article

What Best Explains Successful Protest Cascades? ICTs and the Fuzzy Causes of the Arab Spring

It has been 15 years since the last wave of democratization. But as a region, North[...]

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Topics Arab Spring

Academic article

Social Media and Political Change

This introductory essay highlights the key findings, methodological tool kit, and production process of this Special[...]

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Topics Arab Spring Social Media Social Movements

Academic article

When Do States Disconnect Their Digital Networks?

Although there have been many studies of the different ways regimes censor the use of social[...]

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Topics Governance

Working paper

Opening Closed Regimes: What Was the Role of Social Media During the Arab Spring?

After analyzing over 3 million tweets, gigabytes of YouTube content and thousands of blog posts, a[...]

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Topics Arab Spring Social Media

Academic article

Digital Media and the Arab Spring

During the “Arab Spring,” young tech savvy activists led uprisings in a dozen countries across North[...]

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Topics Arab Spring Social Media

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