TY  - BOOK
AU  - Woolley,Samuel C.
AU  - Howard,Philip N.
TI  - Computational propaganda: political parties, politicians, and political manipulation on social media 
T2  - Oxford studies in digital politics
SN  - 9780190934095 (ebook) :
AV  - HM742 
U1  - 302.30285 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Twitter
KW  - Facebook (Electronic resource)
KW  - Social media
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Online social networks
KW  - Propaganda
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Disinformation
KW  - Generators (Computer programs)
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - Social media platforms do not just circulate political ideas, but support computational propaganda and manipulative disinformation campaigns. Although 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. Including case studies from nine countries and covering propaganda efforts over a wide array of social media platforms, this text argues that bots, fake accounts, and social media algorithms amount to a new political communications mechanism that it terms 'computational propaganda.'
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190931407.001.0001
ER  -