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International Journal of Communication, 2022 Digital astroturfing and computational propaganda have drawn a lot of attention in recent years because of the malicious effects on the political environment, especially in the face of the emerging far right. But most studies on astroturfing are limited
Viktor Chagas
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Fine-Grained Recommendation Mechanism to Curb Astroturfing in Crowdsourcing Systems
IEEE Access, 2017 Crowdsourcing activities, carrying out large-scale tasks via wisdoms of crowds, are widely used in practice. However, it is hard for users to find tasks that are suitable for them.
Zhiwei Guo +6 more
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Digital astroturfing in politics: Definition, typology, and countermeasures
Studies in Communication Sciences, 2018 In recent years, several instances of political actors who created fake grassroots activity on the Internet have been uncovered. We propose to call such fake online grassroots activity digital astroturfing, and we define it as a form of manufactured ...
Marko Kovic +3 more
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La Revista Icono 14Purpose: This study explores how perceived astroturfing and media literacy influence individuals’ critical responses to online content. It examines whether awareness of astroturfing and self-reported evaluation style mediate this relationship ...
Tanase Tasente, Cristina-Dana Popescu
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Revista de ComunicaciónPropósito. Este artículo presenta una revisión sistemática de la literatura científica sobre el fenómeno del astroturfing, con especial atención a su impacto en la comunicación digital y la manipulación de la opinión pública. El astroturfing online como
Noelia García-Estévez +2 more
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Comunicação e Sociedade, 2014 The present article reflects on the matter of civil surveillance over abusive practices of communication employed by private organizations, addressing how such practices, focused on an attempt to corrupt public opinion, create a fuzzy category whose ...
Marcio Simeone Henriques +1 more
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Comunicação e Sociedade, 2014 O presente artigo reflete acerca da vigilância civil sobre práticas de comunicação abusi- vas empregadas por organizações privadas, abordando como tais práticas, voltadas para uma tentativa de corromper a opinião pública, criam uma categoria difusa cujo ...
Marcio Simeone Henriques +1 more
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Internet browser search result manipulations related to Covid-19 vaccine
Politehnika, 2022 An Internet search engine is a specialized web site whose main function is to help find information. The information we collect through such internet search engines is often used to make important decisions although it may not always be considered ...
Bernard Vukelić
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Detecting astroturf lobbying movements [PDF]
Communication and the Public, 2020 Astroturf lobbying refers to the simulation of grassroots support for or against a public policy. The objective of this tactic is for private interests to pretend they have public support for their cause. However, omitting to disclose the real sponsor of a message renders the communication unauthentic and undermines democratic and pluralist values ...
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Child Abuse Review, Volume 35, Issue 4, July/August 2026.ABSTRACT Previous studies have focused on microaggression in many vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, such as disabled people, refugees, the elderly and religious minority groups. No study addresses the microaggression experiences of children in need of protection, whose numbers have increased with the weakening of the family institution and the ...
Mustafa Özmen
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