Bots and political influence: A sociotechnical investigation of social network capital

International Journal of Communication

Volumn 10, Issue , 2016, Pages 4952-4971

  Murthy, Dhiraj ^a   Powell, Alison B ^a   Tinati, Ramine ^c   Anstead, Nick ^b   Carr, Leslie ^c   Halford, Susan J ^c   Weal, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bots; Capital; Experimental methods; Moral panics; Political communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017188067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19328036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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