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Computational propaganda : political parties, politicians, and political manipulation on social media / Samuel C. Woolley and Philip N. Howard

Woolley, Samuel C. ; Howard, Philip N.,i1970-

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018

Oxford : Oxford University Press

1 Online-Ressource

Oxford studies in digital politics

Oxford scholarship online

Previously issued in print: 2018

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-19-093409-5 ; 978-0-19-093140-7

AP 14150 AP 15950

 

Politik  Propaganda  Social Media  Desinformation  Manipulation 

 

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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.'