Disinformation and Data Lockdown on Social Platforms

This book addresses the question of how researchers can conduct independent, ethical research on mal-, mis- and disinformation in a rapidly changing and hostile data environment.

Auteur

Shawn Walker is Assistant Professor of Data & Society in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University.

Dan Mercea is Reader in the Department of Sociology at City, University of London.

Marco Bastos is the University College Dublin Ad Astra Fellow at the School of Information and Communication Studies.

Contenu

1. Introduction: The disinformation landscape and the lockdown of social platforms Shawn Walker, Dan Mercea and Marco Bastos 2. After the 'APIcalypse': social media platforms and their fight against critical scholarly research Axel Bruns 3. An end to the wild west of social media research: a response to Axel Bruns Cornelius Puschmann
   4. Overcoming terms of service: a proposal for ethical distributed research Alexander Halavais 5. Data craft: a theory/methods package for critical internet studies Amelia Acker and Joan Donovan 6. Diverging patterns of interaction around news on social media: insularity and partisanship during the 2018 Italian election campaign Fabio Giglietto, Augusto Valeriani, Nicola Righetti and Giada Marino 7. Algorithms and agenda-setting in Wikileaks' #Podestaemails release Nicholas Proferes and Ed Summers 8. Disinformation, performed: self-presentation of a Russian IRA account on Twitter Yiping Xia, Josephine Lukito, Yini Zhang, Chris Wells, Sang Jung Kim and Chau Tong