Keeping Ottawa honest-one tweet at a time? Politicians, journalists, wikipedians, and their Twitter bots

International Journal of Communication

Volumn 10, Issue , 2016, Pages 4891-4914

  Ford, Heather ^a   Dubois, Elizabeth ^b   Puschmann, Cornelius ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

Algorithmic politics; Bots; Journalism; Twitter bots; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042534408     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19328036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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