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Social bots in political communication
In political communication, social bots are a new phenomenon of using automated algorithms that imitate behavior of real political agents in online social networks.
V V Vasilkova, N I Legostaeva
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Automated software agents --- or bots --- have long been an important part of how Wikipedia's volunteer community of editors write, edit, update, monitor, and moderate content. In this paper, I discuss the complex social and technical environment in which Wikipedia's bots operate.
Geiger, R.Stuart
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A chatbot is an example of a text-based conversational agent. While natural language understanding and machine learning techniques have advanced rapidly, current fully automated chatbots still struggle to serve their users well. Human intelligence, brought by crowd workers, freelancers, or even full-time employees can be embodied in the chatbot ...
Pavel Kucherbaev +2 more
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Social Bots. TA-Vorstudie [PDF]
Welchen Einfluss können Social Bots auf die politische Meinungsbildung ausüben? Was ist heute technisch machbar? Und wie lassen sich Social Bots erkennen und verhindern?
Weide, Sebastian +4 more
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Bots, #Strongerin, and #Brexit: Computational propaganda during the UK-EU Referendum [PDF]
Bots are social media accounts that automate interaction with other users, and they are active on the StrongerInBrexit conversation happening over Twitter.
Bence Kollanyi +5 more
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The Bots Ruining Social Science Aren’t Bots At All
Online data collection from human subjects currently faces a conundrum: it is both essential to how behavioral science functions and threatened by low-quality data. It is often assumed that random, inconsistent, and otherwise incomprehensible data in online surveys comes mainly from “bots.” Despite this assumption, few studies have directly examined ...
Shalom N. Jaffe +6 more
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Deflating the Chinese balloon: types of Twitter bots in US-China balloon incident
As digitalization increases, countries employ digital diplomacy, harnessing digital resources to project their desired image. Digital diplomacy also encompasses the interactivity of digital platforms, providing a trove of public opinion that diplomatic ...
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
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Bots in Software Engineering [PDF]
The theme of this issue is “Bots in Software Engineering,” and we’ve collected a number of recent papers about bots that interact with source code repositories.
Staron, Miroslaw, +12 more
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Bots and Misinformation Spread on Social Media: Implications for COVID-19
As of March 2021, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been responsible for over 115 million cases of COVID-19 worldwide, resulting in over 2.5 million deaths. As the virus spread exponentially, so did its media coverage, resulting in a proliferation of conflicting ...
Himelein-Wachowiak, McKenzie +8 more
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A Modular Variable Stiffness Co-Bot System Achieving Tasks Flexibility and Contact Compliance. [PDF]
Bio‐inspired antagonistic compliance enables a modular rigid‐soft co‐bot platform with variable stiffness for safe human‐robot interaction (HRI): Standardized interfaces support application‐driven configurations with tailored DoFs, workspace, and stiffness range, making the system suited to HRI and low‐volume automation.
Gaozhang W +6 more
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