Analiza dyskursu elektronicznego w kontekście aktywności internetowych botów

The article presents the phenomenon described in the title, well -known in the world of the social media, in the context of studies on language and discourse on the Internet. The first part is devoted to a review of literature on the sub-ject, both in Poland and abroad. One of the most important methods of online discourse analysis introduced in the article is a tool proposed by an American scholar, Susan Herring. The following part of the article concerns the pheno- menon of Internet bots, the social and political context of their emergence, and the analysis of the discourse concerning the phenomenon