This essay explores potential risks associated with the proliferation of social bots on digital platforms. While it is evident from computer science scholarship that social bots play a key role in the spread of online (mis)information (Shao, Ciampaglia, Varol, Flammini, & Menczer, 2017), there is no sociological research on why bots act undisturbed on social networking platforms. Going beyond a merely technological approach, this paper aims at investigating the phenomenon of social bots from a sociological perspective.
Who bots there, friend or foe? Social bots and digital platforms / Antenore, Marzia; Trinca, Elisabetta. - (2020), pp. 93-113.
Who bots there, friend or foe? Social bots and digital platforms.
Marzia Antenore;Trinca Elisabetta
2020
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This essay explores potential risks associated with the proliferation of social bots on digital platforms. While it is evident from computer science scholarship that social bots play a key role in the spread of online (mis)information (Shao, Ciampaglia, Varol, Flammini, & Menczer, 2017), there is no sociological research on why bots act undisturbed on social networking platforms. Going beyond a merely technological approach, this paper aims at investigating the phenomenon of social bots from a sociological perspective.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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