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When Do States Disconnect Their Digital Networks?
Although there have been many studies of the different ways regimes censor the use of social media by their citizens, shutting off social media altogether is something that rarely happens. However, it...
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Social Media and Political Change
Howard, Philip N. and Malcolm Parks. “Social Media and Political Change.” Special Issue of the Journal of Communication. 2012. This introductory essay highlights the key findings, methodological tool...
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What Best Explains Successful Protest Cascades? ICTs and the Fuzzy Causes of...
It has been 15 years since the last wave of democratization. But as a region, North Africa and the Middle East were noticeably devoid of popular democracy movements—until the early months of 2011....
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Telecom Policy Across the Former Yugoslavia: Incentives, Challenges, and...
What is the recipe for good information policy? Hosman and Howard address this in an emerging economy context through case studies of six states that arose following the dissolution of the former...
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This is the prepublication version of my response to the article by Ethan Zuckerman “New Media, New Civics?” published in Policy & Internet (2014: vol. 6, issue 2). Final version, with Zuckerman’s...
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Political Bots and the Manipulation of Public Opinion in Venezuela
Social and political bots have a small but strategic role in Venezuelan political conversations. These automated scripts generate content through social media platforms and then interact with people....
View ArticleBots, #StrongerIn, and #Brexit: Computational Propaganda during the UK-EU...
Bots are social media accounts that automate interaction with other users, and they are active on the StrongerIn-Brexit conversation happening over Twitter. These automated scripts generate content...
View ArticleAutomation, Big Data and Politics: A Research Review
We review the great variety of critical scholarship on algorithms, automation, and big data in areas of contemporary life both to document where there has been robust scholarship and to contribute to...
View ArticleIJOC: Political Communication, Computational Propaganda, and Autonomous...
The Internet certainly disrupted our understanding of what communication can be, who does it, how, and to what effect. What constitutes the Internet has always been an evolving suite of technologies...
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Social Media, Civic Engagement, and the Slactivism Hypothesis: Lessons from...
Does social media use have a positive or negative impact on civic engagement? The cynical “slacktivism hypothesis” holds that if citizens use social media for political conversation, those...
View ArticleComputational Propaganda and Political Big Data: Moving Toward a More...
Computational propaganda has recently exploded into public consciousness. The U.S. presidential campaign of 2016 was marred by evidence, which continues to emerge, of targeted political propaganda...
View ArticleAlgorithms, bots, and political communication in the US 2016 election
Political communication is the process of putting information, technology, and media in the service of power. Increasingly, political actors are automating such processes, through algorithms that...
View ArticleChinese computational propaganda: automation, algorithms and the manipulation...
A new article co-authored with ComProp post-doc Gillian Bolsover was published in Information, Communication, and Society. ABSTRACT A 2016 review of literature about automation, algorithms and...
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