Dark participation

T Quandt - Media and communication, 2018‏ - ssoar.info
Citizen participation in the news-making process has been a hopeful promise since the
1990s. Observers hoped for a rejuvenation of journalism and democracy alike. However …

Troops, trolls and troublemakers: A global inventory of organized social media manipulation

S Bradshaw, P Howard - Computational propaganda research project, 2017‏ - ora.ox.ac.uk
Cyber troops are government, military or political party teams committed to manipulating
public opinion over social media. In this working paper, we report on specific organizations …

Arming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots

KC Yang, O Varol, CA Davis, E Ferrara… - Human Behavior …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
The increased relevance of social media in our daily life has been accompanied by efforts to
manipulate online conversations and opinions. Deceptive social bots—automated or semi …

Unpacking the social media bot: A typology to guide research and policy

R Gorwa, D Guilbeault - Policy & Internet, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Amid widespread reports of digital influence operations during major elections,
policymakers, scholars, and journalists have become increasingly interested in the political …

Trust, media credibility, social ties, and the intention to share towards information verification in an age of fake news

P Majerczak, A Strzelecki - Behavioral Sciences, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Social media is now the primary form of communication between internet users and has
soared in popularity, which has directly impacted the spread of the phenomenon of fake …

Unpacking the right-populist threat to climate action: Poland's pro-governmental media on energy transition and climate change

P Żuk, K Szulecki - Energy research & social science, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Is populist politics a threat to ambitious climate action and decarbonisation of energy
systems? With the coinciding challenges of an alleged global 'populist wave,'and the …

[ספר][B] Language, society and power: An introduction

A Mooney, B Evans - 2018‏ - api.taylorfrancis.com
Language, Society and Power is an accessible introduction to studying language in a variety
of social contexts. This book examines the ways language functions, how it influences the …

The stray sheep of cyberspace aka the actors who claim they break the law for the greater good

A Pawlicka, M Choraś, M Pawlicki - Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2021‏ - Springer
The development of cyberspace has brought about innumerable advantages for the
mankind. However, it also came with several serious drawbacks; as cyberspace evolves, so …

Disinformation in Poland: Thematic classification based on content analysis of fake news from 2019

KA Rosińska - Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial …, 2021‏ - cyberpsychology.eu
The paper presents a qualitative study of fake news on Polish-language internet media that
seeks to arrive at their thematic classification in order to identify areas particularly vulnerable …

Computational Social Science for Policy and Quality of Democracy: Public Opinion, Hate Speech, Misinformation, and Foreign Influence Campaigns

JA Tucker - Handbook of Computational Social Science for Policy, 2023‏ - Springer
The intersection of social media and politics is yet another realm in which Computational
Social Science has a paramount role to play. In this review, I examine the questions that …