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 …

So-called'social bots' have garnered a lot of attention lately. Previous research showed that
they attempted to influence political events such as the Brexit referendum and the US …

Driven by 'success stories' reported by private sector firms, government agencies have also
started adopting various Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in diverse domains (eg …

This provocative new introduction to the field of digital sociology offers a critical overview of
interdisciplinary debates about new ways of knowing society that are emerging today at the …

Over the past few decades, significant advances have been made in public engagement
with, and the democratization of, science and technology. Despite notable successes, such …

Not so long ago, I ran a postgraduate workshop on Actor-Network Theory (henceforth ANT).
An introductory overview had been specifically requested by students, many of whom did not …

Studies of societal engagement with socio-technical change are undergoing a systemic turn.
Rather than simply viewing public engagement in science, policy and behavioural change in …

Grassroots innovations for sustainability are attracting increasing policy attention. Drawing
upon a wide range of empirical research into community energy in the UK, and taking recent …

So-called “robot” journalism represents a shift towards the automation of journalistic tasks
related to news reporting, writing, curation, and even data analysis. In this paper, we …

In this first of a series of three progress reports on qualitative methods we scope recent
qualitative research in human geography through the prism of the interview. Across diverse …