A confirmation bias view on social media induced polarisation during Covid-19

S Modgil, RK Singh, S Gupta, D Dennehy - Information Systems Frontiers, 2024 - Springer
Social media has played a pivotal role in polarising views on politics, climate change, and
more recently, the Covid-19 pandemic. Social media induced polarisation (SMIP) poses …

Social bots in election campaigns: Theoretical, empirical, and methodological implications

TR Keller, U Klinger - Political Communication, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Social bots mimic and potentially manipulate humans and their behaviours in social
networks. The public sphere might be especially vulnerable to their impacts, which is why …

Are social bots a real threat? An agent-based model of the spiral of silence to analyse the impact of manipulative actors in social networks

B Ross, L Pilz, B Cabrera, F Brachten… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Information systems such as social media strongly influence public opinion formation.
Additionally, communication on the internet is shaped by individuals and organisations with …

[图书][B] The international alt-right: Fascism for the 21st century?

P Hermansson, D Lawrence, J Mulhall, S Murdoch - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
The alt-right has been the most important new far-right grouping to appear in decades.
Written by researchers from the anti-racist advocacy group HOPE not hate, this book …

Charting the landscape of online cryptocurrency manipulation

L Nizzoli, S Tardelli, M Avvenuti, S Cresci… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cryptocurrencies represent one of the most attractive markets for financial speculation. As a
consequence, they have attracted unprecedented attention on social media. Besides …

Cashtag piggybacking: Uncovering spam and bot activity in stock microblogs on Twitter

S Cresci, F Lillo, D Regoli, S Tardelli… - ACM Transactions on the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Microblogs are increasingly exploited for predicting prices and traded volumes of stocks in
financial markets. However, it has been demonstrated that much of the content shared in …

Normalizing misogyny: hate speech and verbal abuse of female politicians on Japanese Twitter

T Fuchs, F Schäfer - Japan forum, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Social media platforms such as Twitter have gained tremendous political importance in
recent years. Moreover, being considered as platforms for organizing grass root political …

Digital propaganda, political bots and polarized politics in India

TA Neyazi - Asian Journal of Communication, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The use of digital propaganda during crises and elections to manipulate public opinion,
suppress dissent, and diminish activists' voices has been increasingly witnessed in recent …

“I agree with you, bot!” How users (dis) engage with social bots on Twitter

M Wischnewski, T Ngo, R Bernemann… - New Media & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article investigates under which conditions users on Twitter engage with or react to
social bots. Based on insights from human–computer interaction and motivated reasoning …

Manufacturing conflict or advocating peace? A study of social bots agenda building in the Twitter discussion of the Russia-Ukraine war

B Zhao, W Ren, Y Zhu, H Zhang - Journal of Information …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
After the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, social media become the major contested field
for both sides. Social bots are widely involved in the Russia-Ukraine war discussion as …