Tag: social media
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How social media echo chambers emerge (and why all your friends think Trump will lose)
23 October 2020
Author:Christian Blex
The ongoing Covid-19 crisis has moved more of our interactions online than ever before. Yet in the current political climate the perils of social media are rampant. In his ...
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Hijacking Hashtags in Times of COVID-19: How the Far-Right Polarises Twitter
21 October 2020
Authors:Fabian Stephany
Philipp Darius
Philipp Darius, doctoral candidate, Centre for Digital Governance, Hertie School, Berlin and Dr Fabian Stephany, Postdoctoral Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute, explain how political actors are highjacking hashtags to polarise ...
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Harnessing online tactics to save a species
25 September 2020
Authors:Joss Wright
Hunter Doughty
By Hunter Doughty, Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Zoology and Dr Joss Wright, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Targeted advertising and news coverage are ...
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How the rise of Religious Misinformation is contributing to the Covid-19 infodemic
5 August 2020
Authors:How the rise of Religious Misinformation is contributing to the Covid-19 infodemic By Masha Alimardani, Doctoral Candidate, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and Mona Elswah, Doctoral Candidate, Oxford ...
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Disinformation by Design: How Media Manipulation Campaigns Are Constructed
7 July 2020
Authors:David Sutcliffe
Peaks Krafft
Joan Donovan
Disinformation campaigns such as those perpetrated by far-right groups in the United States seek to erode democratic social institutions. While many studies have emphasized the importance of identity confirmation ...
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Misinformation and the Coronavirus Resistance
24 April 2020
Author:Multiplying threat, and the inspiring resistance Would you believe that the Coronavirus was created by a cruel government to weaken its foreign rivals? Or that it was created by ...
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Digital Harm and Addiction: an Anthropological View
4 February 2020
Author:Q&A with Doctoral Candidate Theodora Sutton In her article “Digital Harm and Addiction: an Anthropological View“, published in Anthropology Today, OII DPhil student and digital anthropologist Theodora Sutton offers ...
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Firefighting AI-powered propaganda
6 April 2018
Authors:Lanisha Butterfield
Vidya Narayanan
Dr Vidya Narayanan, a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute and post-doctoral researcher on the Computational Propaganda Research Project, discusses her work understanding the effects of technology and social ...
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Three reasons junk news spreads so quickly across social media
26 March 2018
Authors:Philip Howard
Samantha Bradshaw
Why and how has the rise of social media contributed to the spread of what we at the Computational Propaganda Project call “junk news”–the tabloidization, false content, conspiracy theories, ...
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The myth of the echo chamber
9 March 2018
Authors:Grant Blank
Elizabeth Dubois (University of Ottawa)
There are widespread fears that so-called echo chambers and filter bubbles are leading to political polarization that poses a danger to democracy. But are the fears unfounded? (Melvin Sokolsky/1963 ...
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Does Campaigning on Social Media Make a Difference?
10 January 2018
Author:I’ve got a new draft paper out with a host of colleagues here at the OII entitled Does Campaigning on Social Media Make a Difference? Evidence from candidate use of ...
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Perspective: Should We Regulate Digital Platforms?
14 December 2017
Author:I invited Phil Howard and Gillian Bolsover in November of 2016 to guest edit this special issue of Big Data on ‘‘Computational Propaganda.’’ I am delighted at the collection ...
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Estimating local commuting patterns from geolocated Twitter data
25 October 2017
Author:Over the last decade or so there has been an explosion of research interest in the area of measuring (and forecasting) of traffic and commuting patterns. Part of this ...
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Twitter trials 280 characters, but its success in Japan is more than a character difference
1 October 2017
Author:Twitter has rolled out a limited trial of 280 characters for some of its users. In announcing the trial, Twitter specifically noted that most Japanese tweets had 15 characters ...
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Pirates, Fashionistas and Dragon Queens unite to push UK youth to #RegisterToVote
21 May 2017
Author:Instagram becomes key battleground for young voters in UK General Election 2017 As the 2017 General Election draws nearer, political parties are trying to utilise all the tools available to ...
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Five Pieces You Should Probably Read On: Fake News and Filter Bubbles
27 January 2017
Author:This is the second post in a series that will uncover great writing by faculty and students at the Oxford Internet Institute, things you should probably know, and ...
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Five Pieces You Should Probably Read On: The US Election
20 January 2017
Author:This is the first post in a series that will uncover great writing by faculty and students at the Oxford Internet Institute, things you should probably know, and ...
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Fake News Bots
10 January 2017
Author: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 ...
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Of course social media is transforming politics. But it’s not to blame for Brexit and Trump
9 January 2017
Author:After Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, 2016 will be remembered as the year of cataclysmic democratic events on both sides of the Atlantic. Social media has been ...
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Should there be a better accounting of the algorithms that choose our news for us?
7 December 2016
Author:The Facebook Wall, by René C. Nielsen (Flickr). A central ideal of democracy is that political discourse should allow a fair and critical exchange of ideas and values. But ...
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