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Philip K. Dick’s seminal novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (adapted into the film Blade Runner ), poses multiple questions about the relations
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This paper empirically analyzes bot activity in contentious Twitter conversations using case studies from the Asia-Pacific. Bot activity is measured and characterized using a series of interoperable tools leveraging dynamic […]
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Over the last few years, a proliferation of attempts to define, understand and fight the spread of problematic information in contemporary media ecosystems emerged. Most of these attempts focus on […]
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Abundant anecdotal evidence suggests that non-democracies employ new digital technologies known as social media bots to facilitate policy goals both domestically and abroad. However, few previous attempts have been made […]
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Astroturfing attacks use automated accounts to artificially propel a chosen keyword to the top of Twitter trending topics. Lateral astroturfing is a sophisticated subset of such attacks in which the […]
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Social media bots (automated accounts) attacks are organized crimes that pose potential threats to public opinion, democracy, public health, stock market and other disciplines. While researchers are building many models […]
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An online social network (OSN) is a social structure made up of a set of users that are interested to communicate with each other in an online environment in order […]
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Recently, all major search engines introduced a new feature: real-time search results, embedded in the first page of organic search results. The content appearing in these results is pulled within […]
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Recently, studies on the characterization and detection of social bots were published at an impressive rate. By looking back at over ten years of research and experimentation on social bots […]
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It sometimes seems that automated bots are taking over social media and driving human discourse. But some (real) researchers aren’t so sure.
