Publication: Social bots in election campaigns: theoretical, empirical, and methodological implications
Social bots in election campaigns: theoretical, empirical, and methodological implications
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Keller, T. R., & Klinger, U. (2019). Social bots in election campaigns: theoretical, empirical, and methodological implications. Political Communication, 36, 171–189. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2018.1526238
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Social bots mimic and potentially manipulate humans and their behaviours in social networks. The public sphere might be especially vulnerable to their impacts, which is why we first discuss their potential influence on the public sphere from a theoretical perspective. From an empirical perspective, we analyzed Twitter followers of seven German parties before (N = 638,674) and during (N = 838,026) the 2017 electoral campaigns regarding bot prevalence and activities. The results revealed that the share of social bots increased from 7.1%
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- Klinger, Ulrike
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Keller, T. R., & Klinger, U. (2019). Social bots in election campaigns: theoretical, empirical, and methodological implications. Political Communication, 36, 171–189. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2018.1526238
