Tag: Publishing

19 September 2017

Authors: Philip Howard

Automation and propaganda can significantly impact public life during important policy debates, elections, and political crises. We collected Twitter data on bot activity and junk news using a set of ...
Read More Junk News and Bots during the German Parliamentary Election: What are German Voters Sharing over Twitter?

17 July 2017

Authors: Philip Howard

Cyber troops are government, military or political party teams committed to manipulating public opinion over social media. In this working paper, we report on specific organizations created, often 8ith ...
Read More Troops, Trolls and Troublemakers: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation

6 June 2017

Authors: Philip Howard

Platforms like Twitter and sources like Wikipedia are important parts of the information diet for many citizens. In this data memo, we analyse Twitter data on bot activity and ...
Read More Social Media and News Sources during the 2017 UK General Election

5 May 2017

Authors: Philip Howard

Computational propaganda distributes large amounts of misinformation about politics and public policy over social media platforms. The combination of automation and propaganda can significantly impact public opinion during important ...
Read More Junk News and Bots during the French Presidential Election (Round II)

21 April 2017

Authors: Philip Howard

Computational propaganda distributes large amounts of misinformation about politics and public policy over social media platforms. The combination of automation and propaganda can significantly impact public opinion during important ...
Read More Junk News and Bots during the French Presidential Election (Round I)

18 January 2017

Authors: Gillian Bolsover

Sind womöglich Maschinen schuld? Gemeint ist die britische Anti-EU Entscheidung von vergangenem Freitag. Vor der Abstimmung waren auffällig viele Pro-Brexit Stimmen in den sozialen Netzwerken zu finden, vor allem ...
Read More Pro #Brexit Twitter Bots (in German)

10 January 2017

Authors: Gillian Bolsover

Automated social media accounts known as ‘bots’ may be used to distort political perception online. We speak with research director Samuel Woolley of the Oxford Internet Institute’s Computational Propaganda ...
Read More Fake News Bots

4 January 2017

Authors: Gillian Bolsover

1. Es postet die Maschine. Wenn TwitterBots Politik machen. 2. Häppchenweise. Über Micro-Learning und Fortbildung in kleinen Portionen. 3. Stuttgart oder Detroit? Das autonome Auto als Kampfplatz zwischen alten ...
Read More Computer & Neue Medien (in German)

23 October 2016

Authors: Philip Howard

The project’s research was covered in this CBC news story on the US election. Automated accounts are sending out tweets that could amplify and distort the U.S. election noise. ...
Read More Bot Tweets Influencing U.S. Election

20 October 2016

Authors: Sam Woolley

Our Director of Research Sam Woolley recently appeared on Seattle’s Q13 television channel to discuss the potential effect of bots on the US election. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1kT4Agxn3Q    

25 September 2016

Authors: Philip Howard

Our research was featured in a segment of the BBC show Click, about the role of social media bots in modern political communication. Watch the video on BBC iPlayer.

23 June 2016

Authors: Philip Howard

Automated social media accounts are being used by both sides in the Brexit debate, a new report shows, with some experts fearing that a sudden surge in activity by ...
Read More These ‘bots’ could sway the Brexit vote

23 May 2016

Authors: Philip Howard

In the midst of the most unprecedented election season in recent history, questioning the political power of technology is now more important than ever. Over on Wired, Samuel Wooley ...
Read More How Twitter Bots Could Sway the Outcome of the Presidential Election

9 March 2016

Authors: Philip Howard

Quinn Brenner was living a nightmare. Her mother passed away. She was rejected from drama school. Then, as she was leaving an audition, she was hit by a car. ...
Read More We’re in a Bot Gold Rush. Kik tells you how to strike it rich.

2 March 2016

Authors: Philip Howard

Selon Andrew Leonard, journaliste et auteur du livre Bots : The Origin of New Species, un bot est « un programme informatique autonome supposé intelligent, doué de personnalité, et ...
Read More Les bots informatiques : énigmes légales dans un avenir rempli de robots

10 August 2015

Authors: Sam Woolley

Project Researcher Norah Abokhodair led the team in the work leading to the paper “Architecture for Understanding the Automated Imaginary: A Working Qualitative Methodology for Research on Political Bots,” ...
Read More Presentation at AoIR 2015

5 August 2015

Authors: Sam Woolley

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s approval ratings may be languishing below 30 percent, but on Twitter he’s as popular as Pope Francis — or so it ...
Read More Venezuela Ruling Party Leverages Twitter bots as Censorship Pushes Political Debate Online

11 June 2015

Authors: Sam Woolley

The Internet of Things is hard to track. As I point out in Pax Technica , what makes it hard to estimate the size of the Internet of Things ...
Read More Sketching out the Internet of Things Trendline

22 May 2015

Authors: Sam Woolley

The subject of this book — the emerging “internet of things” — could not be more timely and important; and its central premise — that this new stage in ...
Read More Review: Pax Technica, by Philip Howard

21 April 2015

Authors: Sam Woolley

Graduate Researcher Norah Abokhodair gave a presentation in South Korea on her planned dissertation research at CHI ’15 entitled “Transmigrant Saudi Arabian Youth and Social Media: Privacy, Intimacy and ...
Read More CHI ’15 Presentation