Computational Propaganda

by Samuel C. Woolley

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Social media platforms do not just circulate political ideas, but support computational propaganda and manipulative disinformation campaigns. Although some of these disinformation campaigns are carried out directly by individuals, most are waged by s... Read more
Social media platforms do not just circulate political ideas, but support computational propaganda and manipulative disinformation campaigns. Although some of these disinformation campaigns are carried out directly by individuals, most are waged by software, commonly known as bots, programmed to perform simple, repetitive, robotic tasks. Including case studies from nine countries and covering propaganda efforts over a wide array of social media platforms, this book argues that bots, fake accounts, and social media algorithms amount to a new political communications mechanism that it terms "computational propaganda." Less

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Publication date October 11, 2018
Languageeng
ISBN9780190931421
Samuel C. Woolley is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas, Austin.Philip N. Howard is Director and Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute at University of Oxf...

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