Conspiracy Machines--The Role of Social Bots during the COVID-19 Infodemic

J Marx, F Brünker, M Mirbabaie… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
The omnipresent COVID-19 pandemic gave rise to a parallel spreading of misinformation,
also referred to as an Infodemic. Consequently, social media have become targets for the …

Social bots in a commercial context-A case study on SoundCloud

B Ross, F Brachten, S Stieglitz… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - eprints.qut.edu.au
Recently, automated communication on social media has seen increased attention. Social
bots, social media accounts controlled by algorithms that mimic human behaviour, have …

Blackmarket-driven collusion on online media: a survey

HS Dutta, T Chakraborty - ACM/IMS Transactions on Data Science (TDS …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Online media platforms have enabled users to connect with individuals and organizations,
and share their thoughts. Other than connectivity, these platforms also serve multiple …

Cross-domain spam detection in social media: a survey

D Dhaka, M Mehrotra - … in Computer Engineering: Microservices in Big …, 2019 - Springer
Social media is now an integral part of everyone's life. Due to its exponential growth with
rising interest of users, they have become the source of the abundant amount of data …

[HTML][HTML] Arranging a rhetorical feminist methodology: The visualization of anti-gentrification rhetoric on Twitter

D Dighton - 2020 - kairos.technorhetoric.net
In endeavoring to assemble a large-scale data collection of Twitter data related to the
keyword" gentrification," I had to work within Twitter's API restrictions and pricing tiers. At the …

Encountering Gentrification: Affordances of a Feminist Approach to Rhetorical Circulation and Twitter Data Studies

D Dighton - 2019 - search.proquest.com
Abstract Encountering Gentrification: Affordances of a Feminist Approach to Rhetorical
Circulation and Twitter Data Studies develops an in situ approach for studying everyday …

Revealing the Blackmarket Retweet Game: A Hybrid Approach

S Arya, HS Dutta - Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional …, 2021 - Springer
The advent of online social networks has led to a significant spread of important news and
opinions. In the case of Twitter, the popularity of a tweet is measured by the number of …

Show your face! Investigating the relationship between human faces and music's success

M Schlechtinger, M Klesel… - … America's Conference of …, 2020 - research.utwente.nl
Streaming services are becoming the primary source for media consumption. Particularly
platforms like SoundCloud, where users can disseminate user-generated content (UGC) …

[PDF][PDF] A holistic view on the ability of automated communication to influence technological scepticism in humans

F Brachten - 2021 - duepublico2.uni-due.de
When new technology is introduced oftentimes it is at first regarded as being merely good or
merely bad with little space in between (Wartella and Robb 2008). However, it is seldom that …

BOTS AMONG US: PREVALENCE, INFLUENCE, AND ROLES OF AUTOMATED ACCOUNTS IN THE GERMAN TWITTER FOLLOW NETWORK

FV Münch, C Puschmann, B Thies… - AoIR Selected Papers of …, 2019 - spir.aoir.org
Social bots are undermining trust in social media. They spread low-credibility content, fake
news, and spam. However, most research is based on bots that actively share links or …