Digital Astroturfing. Una ricognizione sull’attività dei Social bot accounts in campagna elettorale.
Il saggio esplora l'attività dei social bots in campagna elettorale
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Who bots there, friend or foe? The rise of social bots on digital platforms
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.