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Beyond Verification| Inauthentic Authenticity: Astroturfing to Generate True Affect Using Fakery
International Journal of CommunicationAstroturfing is a process of manipulating authenticity to legitimize and give the appearance of sincerity to the communication activities of various organizations.
Camille Alloing +5 more
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Hybrid Intelligence Strategies for Identifying, Classifying and Analyzing Political Bots
Social Sciences, 2021 Political bots, through astroturfing and other strategies, have become important players in recent elections in several countries. This study aims to provide researchers and the citizenry with the necessary knowledge to design strategies to identify bots
Berta García-Orosa +3 more
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Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 2026.Abstract Autism Bases, as part of Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) resourced provisions (RP), offer a hybrid model of inclusive education, combining specialist support with access to mainstream classrooms. While such provisions are widespread, few studies capture the voices of autistic pupils navigating these dual settings.
Alex Silk, Liliana Belkin
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Političke Perspektive, 2017 Ovaj rad proučava aktivnosti korisnika društvene mreže Tviter (twitter.com) koji su se u periodu od januara do maja 2015. godine prvobitno uključili u debatu o načinu na koji je tadašnji zaštitnik građana Saša Janković obavljao svoju dužnost, a kasnije i
Jovica Pavlović
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Revista Internacional de Relaciones Públicas, 2022 O presente artigo trata sobre o astroturfing, relata casos ocorridos em diversas partes do mundo e tensiona-o com a área das Relações Públicas. Esta é uma pesquisa exploratória de caráter qualitativo, com base teórica na perspectiva relacional da comunicação (SILVA, 2013). A partir de uma pesquisa de estado da arte e bibliográfica embasamos a discussão
Letícia De Oliveira Giovanelli +1 more
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Strategic litigation as a challenge for deliberative democracy
American Journal of Political Science, Volume 70, Issue 3, Page 974-989, July 2026.Abstract Strategic litigation is a growing public concern, but remains understudied in democratic theory. In strategic litigation, collectives go to court with a political agenda that goes beyond their specific case. How should we assess the legitimacy of strategic litigation? Building on Lafont's model of deliberative democracy and Klein's distinction
Svenja Ahlhaus
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Tagging the Emirate: Language, Coordination and the Taliban's Digital Pursuit of Legitimacy
Global Policy, Volume 17, Issue 3, Page 487-497, June 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines how political actors leverage social media in Afghanistan as a tool for political legitimation. Framing social media as a potential supply of legitimacy, it analysed X (formerly known as Twitter) content posted by the former Afghan government, humanitarian and Taliban political accounts between January 2020 and December ...
Hannah Oates
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Digital Parrhesia as a Counterweight to Astroturfing [PDF]
, 2012 Astroturfing—fake grassroots communications about an issue of public interest—is further problematized in digital space. Because digitally mediated communication easily accommodates pseudonymous and anonymous speech, digital ethos depends upon finding the proper balance between the ability to create pseudonymous and anonymous online presences and the ...
Allard-Huver, François +1 more
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Business Collective Action: An Integrative Review and Framework
Journal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 1572-1603, May 2026.Abstract Business collective action (BCA) has long been a topic of interest to management scholars. However, our theoretical understanding of this important phenomenon has been hindered by its fragmented development in the literature. To address this shortcoming, we conduct a comprehensive review of BCA across a wide range of disciplines in management,
Sean Buchanan +3 more
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Islamist Buzzers: Message Flooding, Offline Outreach, and Astroturfing
ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 2019 Based on ethnographic research on Islamist buzzers – social media political operators tasked with making particular online conversation subjects trend – in Indonesia, this article details the process of how the proliferation of insensitive message in ...
Ario Seto
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