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Computational Propaganda: Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics) Paperback – 8 Nov. 2018

English edition by Samuel C. Woolley (Herausgeber)
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Social media platforms do not just circulate political ideas, they support manipulative disinformation campaigns. While 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. Some social media bots collect and distribute legitimate information, while others communicate with and harass people, manipulate trending algorithms, andinundate systems with spam. Campaigns made up of bots, fake accounts, and trolls can be coordinated by one person, or a small group of people, to give the illusion of large-scale consensus. Some political regimes use political bots to silence opponents and to push official state messaging, to sway the voteduring elections, and to defame critics, human rights defenders, civil society groups, and journalists. This book argues that such automation and platform manipulation, amounts to a new political communications mechanism that Samuel Woolley and Philip N. Noward call "computational propaganda." This differs from older styles of propaganda in that it uses algorithms, automation, and human curation to purposefully distribute misleading information over social media networks while it activelylearns from and mimicks real people so as to manipulate public opinion across a diverse range of platforms and device networks. This book includes cases of computational propaganda from nine countries (both democratic and authoritarian) and four continents (North and South America, Europe, and Asia),covering propaganda efforts over a wide array of social media platforms and usage in different types of political processes (elections, referenda, and during political crises).
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    Oxford University Press
  5. Publication date
    8 Nov. 2018
  6. Part of series
    Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
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    English
  8. Dimensions
    23.4 x 15.6 x 1.45 cm
  9. Print length
    272 pages
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"[Computational Propaganda] offers robust data-driven evidence around the degree to which social and political manipulation occurs over social media, in countries and contexts, as well as within communities in more mature liberal democracies." -- Sanjana Hattotuwa, The Island

"In the first two decades of the worldwide web, Internet studies focused on how the technology expands social and political space. The 2010s have brought ample evidence of that space being colonized by the usual suspects - states and other powerful anti-democratic actors. This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of how various digital methods, from automated scripts to human trolls, are being harnessed to pollute the information ecosystem, divide societies, and manipulate public opinion. Through their systematic and sober multi-country study, the authors push for evidence-based responses, to avoid the kind of moral panic that in many societies is leading to hasty and ill-conceived regulation.^" -Cherian George, Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and its Threat to Democracy

"Propaganda used to be broadcast--today, propaganda flows in digital networks of human as well as non-human agents. This timely volume brings together a unique set of case studies from around the world revealing the current state of computational propaganda."-Klaus Bruhn Jensen, A Handbook of Media and Communication Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies

"For a long time, politicians struggled to make sense of social media. Then in one electoral season, bots, blogs, YouTube posts and other types of social media amplifiers turned election projections, referenda, and the political landscape upside down. What you thought you knew about the political process is wrong. You have been misinformed. Read this excellent book and find out why."-Zizi Papacharissi, Affective Publics: sentiment, Technology, and Politics

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Samuel C. Woolley is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas, Austin.

Philip N. Howard is Director and Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute at University of Oxford.

They are the co-founders of the Computational Propaganda Project. This research endeavour is focused on the study of the manipulation of public opinion via online spaces. The project is based at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; reprint edition (8 Nov. 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190931418
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190931414
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.45 cm
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    Samuel Woolley, PhD, is a writer, researcher, and professor based in Austin, Texas. He is a faculty member in the School of Journalism & Media and program director of the Propaganda Research Lab at the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. His work looks at how emerging media tools are used to manipulate public opinion. Woolley is the founding director of the Digital Intelligence Lab at the Institute for the Future, a fifty-year-old think-tank based in the heart of Silicon Valley, and co-founder and former research director of the Computational Propaganda Project at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He has written for Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic Monthly, Wired, VICE’s Motherboard, TechCrunch, the Guardian, and Slate. He has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal and on The Today Show, BBC’s News at Ten, and NBC Nightly News.

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    Phil Howard is a Professor at Oxford University and Director of the Programme on Democracy and Technology. He writes about information politics and international affairs, and is the author of ten books, including The Managed Citizen, Pax Technica, and Computational Propaganda. He has won multiple book awards, and his research and commentary writing have been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and many international media outlets. He was named a “Global Thinker” by Foreign Policy magazine, and the National Democratic Institute awarded him their “Democracy Prize” for pioneering the social science of fake news. He has testified before the US Senate, UK House of Parliament, and European Commission on the causes and consequences of fake news and misinformation. His latest book is Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives. He blogs at www.philhoward.org and tweets from @pnhoward.

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  • Hector M. Cappello
    1.0 out of 5 stars Una visión muy general e incompleta sobre el tema del libro.
    Reviewed in Mexico on 19 January 2022
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    Es un libro muy general. Los capítulos ofrecen una experiencia muy limitada sobre la esctructura metodológica utilizada. Es un libro de divulgación.
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  • Dr. Larry Leibrock
    5.0 out of 5 stars Well done. Great research
    Reviewed in the United States on 20 December 2019
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    Well done. Useful and critical thinking. Showing the power of media and lies
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