ISBN:
9780190934095
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Oxford studies in digital politics
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
DDC:
302.30285
Keywords:
Politik
;
Propaganda
;
Social Media
;
Desinformation
;
Manipulation
Abstract:
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.'
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2018
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780190931407.001.0001
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190931407.001.0001
