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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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"Desinformación y relaciones públicas. Aproximación a los términos Black PR y Dark PR"
La Revista Icono 14, 2023 La desinformación ha alcanzado en los últimos años un alto grado de profesionalización. Las campañas de Dark PR o Black PR, son un nivel avanzado de las campañas negativas y en ellas se ficciona la prescripción y la influencia, normalmente con ánimo de ...
Leticia Rodríguez Fernández
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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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Do Social Bots Dream of Electric Sheep? A Categorisation of Social Media Bot Accounts [PDF]
, 2017 So-called 'social bots' have garnered a lot of attention lately. Previous research showed that they attempted to influence political events such as the Brexit referendum and the US presidential elections.
Brachten, Florian +3 more
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Detection of fake news campaigns using graph convolutional networks
International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, 2022 The detection of organised disinformation campaigns that spread fake news, by first camouflaging them as real ones is crucial in the battle against misinformation and disinformation in social media.
Dimitrios Michail +2 more
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Explaining fragmented and fluid mobilization in gold mining concessions in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo [PDF]
, 2017 The expansion of industrial mining in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has sparked social mobilization in gold mining concessions, most of which are important sites for artisanal mining.
Banro +35 more
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Lobbying in the Shadows: A Comparative Analysis of Government Lobbyist Registers
The Milbank Quarterly, Volume 103, Issue 3, Page 857-882, September 2025.Policy Points Our research provides a starting point to benchmark government transparency measures to improve the quality and accessibility of information about lobbying. Policymakers and regulators can use our framework to develop or strengthen their own lobbying registers.
JENNIFER LACY‐NICHOLS +3 more
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Untangling Taiwan’s Hybridity With Structural Dysfunctions
Social Media + Society, 2020 Taiwan’s exceptionally high Internet penetration and social media adoption rates, combined with the growing centrality of digital tools and networks in shaping national politics, make it an interesting case for Internet researchers.
Adrian Rauchfleisch, Jo-yao Chi
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Internet Defamation as Profit Center: The Monetization of Online Harassment [PDF]
, 2009 Efforts to decrease the sexist aspects of online fora have been largely ineffective, and in some instances seemingly counterproductive, in the sense that they have provoked even greater amounts of abuse and harassment with a gendered aspect.
Bartow, Ann
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Hoaxy: A Platform for Tracking Online Misinformation
, 2016 Massive amounts of misinformation have been observed to spread in uncontrolled fashion across social media. Examples include rumors, hoaxes, fake news, and conspiracy theories.
Ciampaglia, Giovanni Luca +3 more
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