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100 1 Woolley, Samuel C.|0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
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245 10 Computational Propaganda :|bPolitical Parties, Politicians,
and Political Manipulation on Social Media.
264 1 Oxford :|bOxford University Press USA - OSO,|c2018.
300 1 online resource (273 pages).
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490 1 Oxford Studies in Digital Politics Ser.
505 0 Cover; Half title; Series page; Computational Propaganda;
Copyright; Contents; Part I Theoretical Introduction And
Analytical Frame; Introduction: Computational Propaganda
Worldwide; Part II Country-Specific Case Studies; 1 Russia
: The Origins of Digital Misinformation; 2 Ukraine:
External Threats and Internal Challenges; 3 Canada:
Building Bot Typologies; 4 Poland: Unpacking the Ecosystem
of Social Media Manipulation; 5 Taiwan: Digital Democracy
Meets Automated Autocracy; 6 Brazil: Political Bot
Intervention During Pivotal Events; 7 Germany: A
Cautionary Tale.
505 8 8 United States: Manufacturing Consensus Online9 China: An
Alternative Model of a Widespread Practice; Part III
Conclusions; Conclusion: Political Parties, Politicians,
and Computational Propaganda; Author Bios; Index.
520 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 book argues that bots, fake accounts,
and social media algorithms amount to a new political
communications mechanism that it terms ""co.
588 0 Print version record.
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650 0 Online social networks|0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/
subjects/sh2006006990|xPolitical aspects.|0http://
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650 0 Propaganda|0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
sh85107443|xTechnological innovations.|0http://id.loc.gov/
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650 0 Disinformation|0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
sh85038430|xTechnological innovations.|0http://id.loc.gov/
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650 0 Generators (Computer programs)|0http://id.loc.gov/
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700 1 Howard, Philip N.|0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aWoolley, Samuel C.|tComputational
Propaganda : Political Parties, Politicians, and Political
Manipulation on Social Media.|dOxford : Oxford University
Press USA - OSO, 2018|z9780190931407.
830 0 Oxford Studies in Digital Politics Ser.
990 Oxford University Press|bOxford Scholarship Online
Political Science|c2019-11-29|yAdded to collection
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