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Terror Machines: Social Bots in Struggles for Hegemony in Digital Publics
On_Culture, 2022 This essay will elaborate upon the ambivalences of unreliable communication on social networks, using the case study of social bots. Social bots simulate human users in social networks.
Ramón Reichert
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A decade of social bot detection [PDF]
Communications of the ACM, 2020 Bots increasingly tamper with political elections and economic discussions. Tracing trends in detection strategies and key suggestions on how to win the fight.
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Slacking with the Bot: Programmable Social Bot in Virtual Team Interaction
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2021 AbstractNonhuman communicators are challenging the prevailing conceptualizations of technology-mediated team communication. Slackbot is a social bot that can be configured to respond to trigger words and, thus, take part in discussions on the platform.
Laaksonen, Salla-Maaria +3 more
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Evaluation of social bot detection models
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 2022 Social bots are employed to automatically perform online social network activities; thereby, they can also be utilized in spreading misinformation and malware. Therefore, many researchers have focused on the automatic detection of social bots to reduce their negative impact on society. However, it is challenging to evaluate and compare existing studies
Torusdag, M. Bugra +2 more
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Demystifying Social Bots: On the Intelligence of Automated Social Media Actors
Social Media + Society, 2020 Recently, social bots , (semi-) automatized accounts in social media, gained global attention in the context of public opinion manipulation. Dystopian scenarios like the malicious amplification of topics, the spreading of disinformation, and the ...
Dennis Assenmacher +5 more
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Structural Divergence Between the Moltbook AI-Agent Network and Human Social Networks. [PDF]
Adv Sci (Weinh)Analysis of the Moltbook AI‐agent network reveals a striking combination of familiar global scaling and distinct internal organization. Attention is highly concentrated, reciprocity is limited, connected triads are suppressed, and communities are strongly modular.
Hou W, Ji Z.
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Deflating the Chinese balloon: types of Twitter bots in US-China balloon incident
EPJ Data Science, 2023 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, #Strongerin, and #Brexit: Computational propaganda during the UK-EU Referendum [PDF]
, 2016 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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Detecting Malicious Social Bots Based on Clickstream Sequences
IEEE Access, 2019 With the significant increase in the volume, velocity, and variety of user data (e.g., user-generated data) in online social networks, there have been attempted to design new ways of collecting and analyzing such big data.
Peining Shi +2 more
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Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 In recent years, there has been a huge increase in the number of bots online, varying from Web crawlers for search engines, to chatbots for online customer service, spambots on social media, and content-editing bots in online collaboration communities ...
Milena Tsvetkova +3 more
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