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Political bots and the manipulation of public opinion in Venezuela

Abstract:: Social and political bots have a small but strategic role in Venezuelan political conversations. These automated scripts generate content through social media platforms and then interact with people. In this preliminary study on the use of political bots in Venezuela, we analyze the tweeting, following and retweeting patterns for the accounts of prominent Venezuelan politicians and prominent Venezuelan bots. We find that bots generate a very small proportion of all the traffic about political...
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Howard, P., Forelle, M., Monroy-Hernandez, A., & Savage, S. (2015). Political bots and the manipulation of public opinion in Venezuela. In Political bots and the manipulation of public opinion in Venezuela.

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Howard, P., et al. “Political Bots and the Manipulation of Public Opinion in Venezuela.” Political Bots and the Manipulation of Public Opinion in Venezuela, 2015.

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Howard, P, M Forelle, A Monroy-Hernandez, and S Savage. 2015. “Political Bots and the Manipulation of Public Opinion in Venezuela.” Political Bots and the Manipulation of Public Opinion in Venezuela.
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Publisher copy:: 10.2139/ssrn.2635800

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University of Oxford

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Oxford Internet Institute

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Journal:: Political bots and the manipulation of public opinion in Venezuela
Publication date:: 2015-07-25
DOI:: 10.2139/ssrn.2635800

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Keywords:: social media

political science
Pubs id:: pubs:661348
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Local pid:: pubs:661348
Deposit date:: 2016-11-24

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Copyright holder:: Michelle Forelle et al
Copyright date:: 2015

Licence:: CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)

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