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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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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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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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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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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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Faking it : how to kill a business through astroturfing on social media [PDF]
, 2012 There is no doubt about it the practice of astroturfing is lazy, misleading and potentially illegal public relations (PR).
Jacobs, Joanne
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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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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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