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Walking with Bourdieu into Twitter communities: An analysis of networked publics struggling on power in Iranian Twittersphere
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 8 (2023), pp. 1653-1674
"This paper offers some insights into Twitter as a political field, based on Bourdieu’s field theory. Networked publics, as agents of this field, are competing overpower by performing networked practices. To investigate this field, we focused on two networked practices: networked framing and narra
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Electoral news sharing: A study of changes in news coverage and Facebook sharing behaviour during the 2018 Mexican elections
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 6 (2023), pp. 1193-1209
"Patterns of news consumption are changing drastically. Citizens increasingly rely on social media such as Facebook to read and share political news. With the power of these platforms to expose citizens to political information, the implications for democracy are profound, making understanding what
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State-Sponsored Online Disinformation: Impact on Electoral Integrity in Thailand
Bangkog: Asia Centre (2023), vii, 42 pp.
"[This publication] outlines how organised disinformation campaigns or Information Operations have become the latest variable to impact the quality of elections in the kingdom [...] Drawn from past evidence, the report identifies four forms of state-sponsored disinformation campaigns that are likely
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Information Integrity to Sustain Peace during Electoral Processes. Sustaining Peace during Electoral Processes (SELECT) Project
New York: UNDP (2023), 48 pp.
"The purpose of this report is to gain a better understanding of the pertinent dynamics and to bolster the design of programming to support the information ecosystem around elections. In aid of this, UNDP sought information through a number of channels, in a review of the relevant literature, a seri
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Reconstructing Elections in a Digital World
South African Journal of International Affairs, volume 30, issue 3 (2023), pp. 473-496
"The nature of elections has been transformed by the rise of digital technologies in the last few years, in large part due to the rise of social media platforms and their impact on election campaigning, dissemination of informationand opinion formation. Furthermore, digital technologies have been em
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Towards a model that measures the impact of disinformation on elections
European View, volume 22, issue 1 (2023), pp. 119-130
"Disinformation represents a danger to the integrity and legitimacy of the electoral process. From our research based on the 2021 Czech parliamentary elections, we introduce a model for measuring the resilience of citizens to disinformation. This model is then used to draw conclusions about the impa
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"On average in the 16 countries surveyed, 56% of internet users frequently use social media to stay informed about current events, far ahead of television (44%). However, it is worth noting that differences exist among population groups: television is the primary source in the most developed countri
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Political Economy of Covert Influence Operations in the 2022 Philippine Elections
Deep Insights
Internews (2023), 168 pp.
"This report investigates the political economy of covert influence in the 2022 Philippine Elections, with a focus on social media influencers involved in covert political campaigning. This interdisciplinary research (1) examines political influencers and peripheral actors in the field engaged in po
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Elections in Digital Times: A Guide for Electoral Practitioners
Key Guides
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 146 pp.
"This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of international and regional standards and commitments related to the rights to freedom of expression, access to information, political participation, and privacy in the area of the internet, social media and Artificial Intelligence in elections. It al
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Youth and Disinformation in Malaysia: Strengthening Electoral Integrity
Bangkog: Asia Centre (2022), vii, 44 pp.
"In 2022, internet penetration and social platform usage reached an all-time high – 43.4% of the total population who use the internet are youth aged between 15-24 years. Youth voters have explicitly become a major target of political parties and their campaign messages. We can expect social media
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Information Controls and Internet Shutdowns in African Elections
Journal of African Elections, volume 21, issue 2 (2022), pp. 1-22
"Internet shutdowns in Africa are becoming increasingly widespread, particularly when governments face competitive or contentious elections. They have also come to symbolise a widening fracture between competing conceptions of the global Internet and its regulation. Governments in Africa are justify
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Trapped in a Web: The Exploitation of Personal Data in Hungary’s 2022 Elections
Human Rights Watch (2022), 94 pp.
"On April 3, 2022, Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party won a fourth term in national elections, cementing its dominance with a two-thirds majority that will allow it to continue traveling what critics of the party and many others would describe as the path of centralizing power and rolling back democrat
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Social Media Listening Analysis: Kenya
Search for Common Ground (2022), 18 pp.
Acompanhamento da desinformação durante as eleições 2022
NetLab; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) (2022), 39 slides
"Narrativas de desinformação - principais achados: 1. Entre alegações de fraude e apelos moralistas, a Integridade Eleitoral e os Valores Cristãos despontam como as principais pautas do segundo turno. 2. Parte da relevância dos valores cristãos se dá pelo reenquadramento de outras pautas ger
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Conteúdo nocivo: A Meta protege a integridade eleitoral no Brasil?
NetLab; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) (2022), 12 pp.
"Analisamos uma amostra do conteúdo denunciado ao TSE, a fim de verificar se, de fato, a Meta removeu ou indicou a presença de desinformação nestas publicações. Os resultados apontam que parcelas expressivas das publicações denunciadas e já diagnosticadas como nocivas por checadores de fato
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Brazil's Electoral Justice Permanent Program on Countering Disinformation: Strategic Plan Elections 2022
Brasilia: Brazil Superior Electoral Court; Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE) (2022), 61 pp.
"The actions to be developed are distributed in three axes: (i) Inform, aimed at the dissemination of official, reliable and quality information; (ii) Empower, aimed at media literacy and training the whole of society to understand the phenomenon of disinformation and the functioning of the electora
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