Disinformation and Data Lockdown on Social Platforms

ISBN-13: 9781032074474 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 140 str.

Shawn Walker; Dan Mercea; Marco Bastos

Opis

This book addresses the question of how researchers can conduct independent, ethical research on mal-, mis- and disinformation in a rapidly changing and hostile data environment.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The disinformation landscape and the lockdown of social platforms  2. After the ‘APIcalypse’: social media platforms and their fight against critical scholarly research  3. An end to the wild west of social media research: a response to Axel Bruns  4. Overcoming terms of service: a proposal for ethical distributed research  5. Data craft: a theory/methods package for critical internet studies  6. Diverging patterns of interaction around news on social media: insularity and partisanship during the 2018 Italian election campaign  7. Algorithms and agenda-setting in Wikileaks’ #Podestaemails release  8. Disinformation, performed: self-presentation of a Russian IRA account on Twitter