Year: 2018
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This dissertation is an investigation of the ways three political actor groups used and interacted with bots and computational propaganda during the 2016 Presidential Election in the United States of America: political campaigns, journalists, and digital constituents.It is informed by data from over nine months of fieldwork, from February 2016 to after November 2016, in and around the U.S. campaign including attendance at pivotal party events, participant observation of campaigns, and consistent collection and parsing of online and offline information related to bots, computational propaganda, and the race.Over 40 interviews with a variety of experts from each Table of Contents Introduction: The Political Bot ......
Author: Samuel Woolley
Language: English
Topic: Social Media and Politics
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2935150156