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Democratization & Digital Media / Social Media
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Twitter & Microblogs
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Facebook
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Media
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Social Media
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Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
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Digital Political Communication
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Hate Speech, Hate Speech in Social Media
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Politics and Media
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Citizen Journalism, Community Journalism
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Political Blogging
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Digital Media Censorship, Control & Filtering, Internet & Social Media Censorship
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Countering Hate Speech, Disinformation & Propaganda
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Protests, Protest Movements, Protest Reporting & Media Representation
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Polarization, Political Polarization
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Political Communication
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Propaganda
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Political Transition and Media
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Election Campaigns
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Political Parties: Communication Strategies
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Muslim Digital Media & Online Communities
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Access to Internet & Digital Communications
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Digital Communication
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Social Movements: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Freedom of Expression
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Government Communication Strategies
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Public Diplomacy, Cultural Diplomacy
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War Reporting
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Digital Anthropology, Cyberanthropology
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Religious Digital & Social Media Practices
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Political Websites & Online Communities
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Blogging, Blogs
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Racism in Social Media & Digital Communication
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Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Reporting
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Female Opinion Leaders, Politicians, Decision Makers
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Gender Representation & Stereotypes in the Media
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Election Reporting
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Democracy / Democratization and Media
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Media Capture, Vested Political & Other Interests in the Media
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National Identity & Media, Nationalism & Communication
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Public Spheres
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Digital Divide, Digital Inequalities
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Digital Advertising, Online Advertising
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Gender Advocacy & Empowerment, Gender Mainstreaming
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Media Advocacy, Media Activism
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Behavior Tracking & Cookies
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Internet & Social Media Use: Women
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Digital & Social Media Use: Youth
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Prosumers & User Self-Marketing
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Gaming: Uses & Effects
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Mobile Phone Use
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News Consumption & Information Sources of Media Users
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Opinion Polls, Public Opinion Research
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Authoritarian Regimes: Government Communication Strategies
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Authoritarian Regimes: Media Systems & Landscapes
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Independent & Oppositional Media in Authoritarian Regimes
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Political Campaigns
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Internet Censorship Circumvention Tools & Strategies
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Surveillance, Surveillance Technologies, Spyware
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Government Propaganda
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Local Government Communication Strategies
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Military: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Social Media Marketing & Digital Public Relations
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Alternative Communication & Media
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Community Development: Role of Communication & Media
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Russia-Ukraine War <2014-
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Conflicts & Wars: Roles of Digital Technologies & Conflict Narratives in Social Media
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Extremism & Terrorism Reporting
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Aesthetics in Media & Communication
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Media Monitoring, Media Observatories
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Memes
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Fans, Fandom, Fan Cultures
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Algorithms & Big Data
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Cyberbullying, Cyberharassment
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Digital Media Research, Digital Communication Research
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E-Governance, E-Democracy
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Indigenous Digital & Social Media Communication
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Internet
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Internet / Social Media Law & Regulation
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Media Assistance: Digital Journalism & Social Media
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Digital Financial Services, Mobile Banking, Mobile Payphone Business
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Digital Journalism, Online Journalism
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Search Engines
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Bots
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Content Moderation & Regulation: Social Media
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Influencers (Social Media)
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Journalistic Social Media Use
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TikTok
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Twitch (Video Games Live-Streaming Platform)
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Hashtags
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YouTube
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WhatsApp
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Trolling (Social Media)
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Digitalization, Digital Transformation
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Economic Development: Role of ICTs & Media
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ICTs and Development
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ICT4D Research
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Ethnic Media, Minority Media
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Foreign Disinformation, Foreign Information Manipulation Operations, Foreign Propaganda
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Digital Economies & Markets
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Gaming, Video Games
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Humour, Parody, Satire
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Political Parody and Satire
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Defamation of Religion (Blasphemy)
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Good Practice Examples
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China: Foreign Media Representation & Image Abroad
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Russia: Foreign Information Operations, International Broadcasting, Public Diplomacy
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Investigative Journalism
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Safety of Journalists, Safety Risks of Media Workers
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Death & Grief: Reporting & Media Representation
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Political Reporting
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Local Communication & Media
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Post-Socialist Media Systems & Landscapes
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Television Landscapes
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Media Law & Regulation
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Emruz (Website, Iran)
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Migration & Refugees Reporting & (Social) Media Representation
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Arab Spring (2010-2012)
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Coup d'Etat
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Anticommunism
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Populism
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Right-Wing Extremism
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Election Monitoring
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Framing
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Governance & Accountability: Role of Media / Communication
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Influence of Media on Politics
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Radicalisation: Influence of Media
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Muslim Brotherhood (Egypt)
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Antisemitism
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Religion and Politics
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Civil Society
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Ethnocentrism
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Networks & Networking
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Digital Media Technologies
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Open Source Software
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Urban Communication, Urban Media
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Illustrations, Pictures, Images
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Youth Activism, Youth Civic Engagement, Youth Political Interests, Youth Protests
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Computational Propaganda: Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media
New York: Oxford University Press (2019), vi, 263 pp.
"Computational propaganda is an emergent form of political manipulation that occurs over the Internet. The term describes the assemblage of social media platforms, autonomous agents, algorithms, and big data tasked with the manipulation of public opinion. Our research shows that this new mode of int
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Making it Personal: The Campaign Battle on Social Media in Indonesia's 2019 Presidential Election
Singapore: ISEAS (2019), 11 pp.
"Ranked fourth in the number of Facebook users in the world in 2018, Indonesia has witnessed increasing social media usage as a strategic platform for political campaigns since the third direct presidential election in 2014. Due to their accessibility and relatively low cost, social media platforms
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Facebooking in Myanmar: From Hate Speech to Fake News to Partisan Political Communication
Singapore: ISEAS (2019), 10 pp.
"Facebook is the Internet in Myanmar, and it presents both opportunities for and challenges to the government, the opposition, and the people in a country that is in transition. Facebook has gained notoriety as a platform for hate speech and fake news in Myanmar over the past seven years. Facebook h
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The Impact of Digital Media on the 2019 Indian General Election
Singapore: Institute of South Asian Studies;Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2019), 28 pp.
"The 2019 Indian general election saw the widespread and innovative use of digital media and technology. Most political parties employed digital media extensively for campaigning and voter mobilisation. This extensive use of digital media was due to nearly half of India’s 900 million eligible vote
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Elections and Media in Digital Times
Paris: UNESCO (2019), 67 pp.
"The central focus of this study is the dynamic and complex relationship between elections and (digital) media. This choice of focus is explained by the need to safeguard the integrity and credibility of electoral processes, as well as the role of the news media during election periods, in the face
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Social Media Monitoring During Elections: Cases and Best Practice to Inform Electoral Observation Missions
Open Society Foundations (2019), 41 pp.
"The regulatory gap between online and offline political communication and elections is staggering. Even as monitors track broadcast media and advertising, elections are manipulated online. Initial responses by recent international electoral observation missions in Kenya, Georgia and Nigeria – as
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Social Media and Political Behaviour
Delhi: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) (2019), 70 pp.
"This collaborative report between the Lokniti programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung analyzes the growth of online social networking sites and apps in India and their role in shaping political preferences and attitudes in the recently concluded 20
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Social Media and Elections
Montevideo: UNESCO (2019), 27 pp.
"This paper analyses the potential impact of social media on the conduct and outcome of elections both to strengthen political participation and knowledge sharing as well as the more harmful effects. It looks at the various harms particularly those relevant in the context of Latin America. It docume
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Close and Distant: Political Executive-Media Relations in Four Countries
Gothenburg: Nordicom (2019), 264 pp.
"This book explores the interplay between government and media drawing on unique evidence from, and in-depth analysis of, four national cases: Finland, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. Based on the chapters dedicated to each country, five additional chapters address the following cross-national themes:
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The Online Public Sphere in the Gulf: Contestation, Creativity, and Change
Review of Middle East Studies, volume 53, issue 2 (2019), pp. 190-199
"This introductory essay sets the stage for this special issue, which explores how online media has changed the Arabian Gulf region's politics, economies, and social norms. It provides an overview of the most important themes, arguments, and findings tackled in the four essays in this issue, as well
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Freedom on the Net 2019: The Crisis of Social Media
Top Insights
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2019), 32 pp.
"Social media allow ordinary people, civic groups, and journalists to reach a vast audience at little or no cost, but they have also provided an extremely useful and inexpensive platform for malign influence operations by foreign and domestic actors alike. Political leaders employed individuals to s
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Polarisation and Politicisation: The Social Media Strategies of Indian Political Parties
Hamburg: German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) (2019), 14 pp.
"Ahead of the general election in April and May 2019, Indian political parties are using social media aggressively to propagate their ideology, mobilise public opinion, set policy agendas, and discredit detractors. Since the 2014 general election, India’s two major political parties – the Bharat
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Der politische Mythos von sozialen Medien als liberalem Cyberspace und freier Online-Meinungsäußerung in Vietnam
In: Vietnam: Mythen und Wirklichkeiten
Jörg Wischermann; Gerhard Will (eds.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2018), pp. 212-234
"Während viele Bürgerinnen und Bürger sowie Beobachter große Hoffnungen hegen, die sozialen Medien könnten ein wirksames Instrument sein, um soziale Bewegungen zu Themen wie Ungleichheit, Ungerechtigkeit und Umwelt in Gang zu setzen, ist es zuweilen schwierig, die massenhaften Reaktionen in den
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Social Media Guide for Politicians
Northlands, ZA: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2018), 34 pp.
"Like we control our data, we should be aware that dealing with social media as a party or as a politician carries with it a far bigger responsibility than for an individual who uses it. Inappropriate posts or retweets of information that have not been cross-checked can cause havoc in communities an
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African Digital Media Review (3)
African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 1 (2018), pp. 1-128
#DigitalDeceit: The Technologies Behind Precision Propaganda on the Internet
New America (2018), 37 pp.
"This analysis of digital advertising technology and its relevance to disinformation online is designed to broaden the focus in the current public debate beyond Russian operatives buying ads on social media. The problem is much bigger than that and the issues of concern are more diverse. Our analysi
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Russian Social Media Influence: Understanding Russian Propaganda in Eastern Europe
Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation (2018), xvii, 130 pp.
"A RAND Corporation study examined Russian-language content on social media and the broader propaganda threat posed to the region of former Soviet states that include Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and, to a lesser extent, Moldova and Belarus. In addition to employing a state-funded multilingu
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Polígrafo de género
Bogotá: Linterna Verde;Colnodo;Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) (2018), 34 pp.
"Como parte de un proyecto sobre desinformación, el centro de Internet y Sociedad Linterna Verde, en asocio con la Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa, presenta un informe que monitorea los discursos de género –tanto de candidatos presidenciales como de sus fórmulas– a través del análisis
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Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation
Top Insights
Oxford: University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute (2018), 25 pp.
"Our key findings are: 1. We have found evidence of formally organized social media manipulation campaigns in 48 countries, up from 28 countries last year. In each country there is at least one political party or government agency using social media to manipulate public opinion domestically; 2. Much
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Online Supplement to Working Paper 2018.1. Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation
Oxford: University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute;Computational Propaganda Research Project (2018), 81 pp.
"These are the background case notes complied for MEMO 2018.1: Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation. For details on the methods behind this content analysis please see the methodology section of the report. This document contains data from over 500 s
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