Computational propaganda : political parties, politicians, and political manipulation on social media

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Computational propaganda : political parties, politicians, and political manipulation on social media

Title remainder

political parties, politicians, and political manipulation on social media

Statement of responsibility

Samuel C. Woolley and Philip N. Howard

Contributor

• Howard, Philip N.
• Woolley, Samuel C.

Editor

• Howard, Philip N.
• Woolley, Samuel C.

Subject

• Disinformation -- Technological innovations
• Facebook (Electronic resource)
• Generators (Computer programs)
• Online social networks -- Political aspects
• Propaganda -- Technological innovations
• Social media -- Political aspects
• Twitter

Language

eng

Summary

Social media platforms do not just circulate political ideas, but support computational propaganda and manipulative disinformation campaigns. Although some of these disinformation campaigns are carried out directly by individuals, most are waged by software, commonly known as bots, programmed to perform simple, repetitive, robotic tasks. Including case studies from nine countries and covering propaganda efforts over a wide array of social media platforms, this text argues that bots, fake accounts, and social media algorithms amount to a new political communications mechanism that it terms 'computational propaganda.'--

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Target audience

specialized