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Manufacturing rage: The Russian Internet Research Agency's political astroturfing on social media

First Monday, 2020
This paper examines social media ads purchased by the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA). Using a public dataset, we employ a mixed method to analyze the thematic and strategic patterns of these ads.
Ahmed Al-Rawi, A. Rahman
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Astroturfing como estratégia de pressão política nas convenções partidárias brasileiras

Revista Justiça Eleitoral em Debate
O texto analisa o uso do astroturfing como estratégia de manipulação política nas convenções partidárias brasileiras. Essa prática simula apoio popular por meio de ferramentas digitais, influenciando a escolha de candidatos com base em métricas ...
Cláudio Dell'Orto
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Astroturfing

2010
M.F.A. ; "This thesis represents the first third of a fictional novel entitled Astroturfing"--p.
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Cleat-surface friction on new and old Astroturf

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 1975
The authors have studied the alterations in cleat-surface friction of AstroTurf associated with use and exposure. Three cleat types were studied on five year old turf and on an unused, unexposed turf sample of the same production batch. Tests were carried out with and against surface grain under wet and dry conditions.
K D, Bowers, R B, Martin
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Digital Astroturfing: Definition, typology, and countermeasures.

2016
In recent years, several instances of political actors creating fake grassroots activity on the Internet have been uncovered. We propose to call such fake online grassroots activity digital astroturfing. In this paper, we lay out a conceptual map of the phenomenon of digital astroturfing.
Kovic, Marko, Rauchfleisch, Adrian, Sele, Marc   +2 more
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Civil society and EU democracy: ‘astroturf’ representation?

Journal of European Public Policy, 2010
The growing uneasiness about the democratic deficit of the European Union (EU) has incited politicians and academics alike to look for remedies other than institutional reforms and giving more powers to the European Parliament. Strategies of ‘good governance’ shifted centre stage and the governance turn initiated a lively discourse on the democratic ...
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Astroturf als Lobbyingstrategie

2011
Politische Interessenvertretung erfolgt in der parlamentarischen Demokratie der Bundesrepublik Deutschland uberwiegend in institutionalisierten Verfahren. „Um die formalen Entscheidungstrager haben sich Netzwerke aus Burgerinitiativen, Interessenverbanden und Unternehmen etabliert, die kommunizierend und beratend Einfluss auf die Politik nehmen und an ...
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Controlling astroturfing on the internet: a survey on detection techniques and research challenges

International Journal of Web and Grid Services, 2019
Astroturfing is one of the most impactful threats on today's internet. It is the process of masking and portraying a doctored message to the general population in a way as though it originated from the grass-root level.
Syed Mahbub, Eric Pardede, A. Kayes, Wenny Rahayu   +3 more
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Commercial Astroturfing Detection in Social Networks

2018
One of the major problem for recommendation services is commercial astroturfing. This work is devoted to constructing a model capable of detecting astroturfing in customer reviews based on network analysis. The model uses projecting a multipartite network to a unipartite graph, for which we detect communities and represent actors with falsified ...
Nadezhda Kostyakova, Ilia Karpov, Ilya Makarov, Leonid E. Zhukov   +3 more
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Challenging Book Challenges: Understanding the Background, Examining “Astroturfing” as a Current Political Strategy, and Finding Ways Forward

, 2023
D. Charbonneau, Suliman Hawamdeh, Shannon M. Oltmann, J. Winberry, Jieun Yeon, Andrew Zalot   +5 more
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