Add to ORKGAre bots active in Canada? Yes. Are they influential? Maybe. Using a combination of quantitative social media analysis, content analysis of news articles and qualitative interviews, we study the use of political bots in Canada. We identify four kinds of bots. Amplifiers game digital systems to promote a message or channel. Dampeners supress and remove information online. Alongside these problematic bots, we also find a number of benign bots that help journalists, civil society and governments. These bots include transparency bots that disclose information to the public and servant bots that help maintain services and infrastructures. Even though bots might not yet be influential in Canada, improved media literacy and increased public discus...
The Computational Propaganda Research Project at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford...
Recent accounts from researchers, journalists, as well as federal investigators, reached a unanimous...
The article considers the modern phenomenon of infodemia as an extension of latent mechanisms of inf...
Are bots active in Canada? Yes. Are they influential? Maybe. Using a combination of quantitative soc...
Do bots have the capacity to influence the flow of political information over social media? This wor...
Over the last several years political actors worldwide have begun harnessing the digital power of so...
In political communication, social bots are a new phenomenon of using automated algorithms that imit...
Political communication is the process of putting information, technology, and media in the service ...
Social and political bots have a small but strategic role in Venezuelan political conversations. The...
As social media has permeated large parts of the population it simultaneously has become a way to re...
Nowadays, parties run their election campaigns specifically on the internet. Hence, the application ...
Political bots, through astroturfing and other strategies, have become important players in recent e...
The use of bot messaging, that being artificially created messages, has increased since 2010. While ...
Social bots – partially or fully automated accounts on social media platforms – have not only been w...
Computational propaganda can take the form of automated accounts (bots) spreading information, algor...
The Computational Propaganda Research Project at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford...
Recent accounts from researchers, journalists, as well as federal investigators, reached a unanimous...
The article considers the modern phenomenon of infodemia as an extension of latent mechanisms of inf...
Are bots active in Canada? Yes. Are they influential? Maybe. Using a combination of quantitative soc...
Do bots have the capacity to influence the flow of political information over social media? This wor...
Over the last several years political actors worldwide have begun harnessing the digital power of so...
In political communication, social bots are a new phenomenon of using automated algorithms that imit...
Political communication is the process of putting information, technology, and media in the service ...
Social and political bots have a small but strategic role in Venezuelan political conversations. The...
As social media has permeated large parts of the population it simultaneously has become a way to re...
Nowadays, parties run their election campaigns specifically on the internet. Hence, the application ...
Political bots, through astroturfing and other strategies, have become important players in recent e...
The use of bot messaging, that being artificially created messages, has increased since 2010. While ...
Social bots – partially or fully automated accounts on social media platforms – have not only been w...
Computational propaganda can take the form of automated accounts (bots) spreading information, algor...
The Computational Propaganda Research Project at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford...
Recent accounts from researchers, journalists, as well as federal investigators, reached a unanimous...
The article considers the modern phenomenon of infodemia as an extension of latent mechanisms of inf...