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Social bots in political communication
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2019 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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Red Bots Do It Better:Comparative Analysis of Social Bot Partisan Behavior [PDF]
Companion Proceedings of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference, 2019 Recent research brought awareness of the issue of bots on social media and the significant risks of mass manipulation of public opinion in the context of political discussion. In this work, we leverage Twitter to study the discourse during the 2018 US midterm elections and analyze social bot activity and interactions with humans.
Luca Luceri +3 more
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Social bots have garnered increasing attention and prominence, coinciding with the pervasive integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into numerous applications and our daily routines. These automated agents, conceived to streamline repetitive and mundane tasks, have found their presence across various platforms, including Wikipedia, Facebook, and ...
Dürr, Paul
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merz | medien + erziehung, 2017 Zwischen Trollen als menschliche Akteure und Spam-E-Mails: Social Bots sind Computerprogramme, die eine menschliche Identität vortäuschen und darauf ausgerichtet sind, in sozialen Netzwerken wie Facebook und Twitter maschinell erstellte Beiträge wie Kommentare, Antworten oder Meinungsäußerungen zu generieren, um Diskurse zu beeinflussen bzw.
Wütscher, Swenja
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Social Media + Society, 2023 Extreme weather-related events like wildfires have been increasing in frequency and severity due to climate change. Public online conversations that reflect on these events as climate emergencies can create awareness and build support for climate action ...
Stefan Daume +2 more
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Bots Mind the Social-technical Gap [PDF]
, 2017 Mobile workers experience the social-technical gap when moral dilemmas occur on communication platforms, and technology cannot adapt to social contexts on ethical matters. On messaging applications, bots are non-human team members and/or assistants that can aid mobile workers manage ethical challenges.
Minha Lee +4 more
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Demystifying Misconceptions in Social Bots Research [PDF]
Social Science Computer ReviewResearch on social bots aims at advancing knowledge and providing solutions to one of the most debated forms of online manipulation. Yet, social bot research is plagued by widespread biases, hyped results, and misconceptions that set the stage for ambiguities, unrealistic expectations, and seemingly irreconcilable findings.
Stefano Cresci +5 more
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Characterising and Detecting Social Bots [PDF]
, 2020 Social bots have been on the rise since the creation of Online Social Networks (OSN). These automated programs bring both positive and negative impacts to our online experience. On the positive end, chatbots can provide instant customer service to us and
Ong, Yew Chuan
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Social Bots. TA-Vorstudie [PDF]
, 2021 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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Emergent local structures in an ecosystem of social bots and humans on Twitter
EPJ Data Science, 2023 Bots in online social networks can be used for good or bad but their presence is unavoidable and will increase in the future. To investigate how the interaction networks of bots and humans evolve, we created six social bots on Twitter with AI language ...
Abdullah Alrhmoun, János Kertész
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