Disinformation and Data Lockdown on Social Platforms

Herausgeber: Walker, Shawn; Bastos, Marco; Mercea, Dan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 175mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781032074481
• ISBN-10: 1032074485
• Artikelnr.: 69921534

Autorenporträt

Shawn Walker is Assistant Professor of Data & Society in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University. Dan Mercea is Reader in the Department of Sociology at City, University of London. Marco Bastos is the University College Dublin Ad Astra Fellow at the School of Information and Communication Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

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