5,503
Views
124
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

News Bots

Automating news and information dissemination on Twitter

ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon

References

  • Abokhodair, Norah, Daisy Yoo, and David W. Mcdonald. 2015. “Dissecting a Social Botnet.” In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing – CSCW ’15, 839–851. New York: ACM.
  • Aiello, Luca Maria, Martina Deplano, Rossano Schifanella, and Giancarlo Ruffo. 2012. “People are Strange when you’re a Stranger: Impact and Influence of Bots on Social Networks.” Links 697 (483, 151): 1–566.
  • Anthony, Laurence. 2004. “AntConc: A Learner and Classroom Friendly, Multi-Platform Corpus Analysis Toolkit.” In Proceedings of IWLeL 2004: An Interactive Workshop on Language e-Learning, 7–13. Tokyo: Waseda University.
  • Barbour, Rosaline S. 2001. “Checklists for Improving Rigour in Qualitative Research: A Case of the Tail Wagging the Dog?” British Medical Journal 322 (7294): 1115–1117.https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.322.7294.1115
  • Boshmaf, Yazan, Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznosov, and Matei Ripeanu. 2011. “The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money.” In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 93–102. New York: ACM.
  • Broussard, Meredith. 2014. “Artificial Intelligence for Investigative Reporting: Using an Expert System to Enhance Journalists’ Ability to Discover Original Public Affairs Stories.” Digital Journalism. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2014.985497.https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2014.985497
  • Carlson, Matt. 2015. “The Robotic Reporter: Automated Journalism and the Redefinition of Labor, Compositional Forms, and Journalistic Authority.” Digital Journalism 3 (3): 416–431.
  • Castillo, Carlos, Marcelo Mendoza, and Barbara Poblete. 2011. “Information Credibility on Twitter.” In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web, 675–684. New York: ACM.https://doi.org/10.1145/1963405
  • Chu, Zi, Steven Gianvecchio, Haining Wang, and Sushil Jajodia. 2010. “Who is Tweeting on Twitter: Human, Bot, or Cyborg?” In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 21–30. New York: ACM.https://doi.org/10.1145/1920261
  • Cohen, Sarah, James T. Hamilton, and Fred Turner. 2011. “Computational Journalism: How Computer Scientists Can Empower Journalists, Democracy’s Watchdogs, in the Production of News in the Public Interest.” Communications of the ACM 54 (10): 66–71.https://doi.org/10.1145/2001269
  • Cook, David M., Benjamin Waugh, Maldini Abdipanah, Omid Hashemi, and Shaquille Abdul Rahman. 2014. “Twitter Deception and Influence: Issues of Identity, Slacktivism, and Puppetry.” Journal of Information Warfare 13 (1): 58–71.
  • Diakopoulos, Nicholas. 2015. “Algorithmic Accountability: Journalistic Investigation of Computational Power Structures.” Digital Journalism 3 (3): 398–415. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2014.976411
  • Dickerson, John P., Vadim Kagan, and V. S. Subrahmanian. 2014. “Using Sentiment to Detect Bots on Twitter: Are Humans More Opinionated Than Bots?” In Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference, 620–627. New York: ACM.https://doi.org/10.1109/ASONAM.2014.6921650
  • Edwards, Chad, Autumn Edwards, Patric R. Spence, and Ashleigh K. Shelton. 2014. “Is that a Bot Running the Social Media Feed? Testing the Differences in Perceptions of Communication Quality for a Human Agent and a Bot Agent on Twitter.” Computers in Human Behavior 33: 372–376.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.08.013
  • Ferrara, Emilio, Onur Varol, Clayton Davis, Filippo Menczer, and Alessandro Flammini. 2014. “The Rise of Social Bots.” arXiv Preprint arXiv:1407.5225.
  • Gao, Tong, Jessica R. Hullman, Eytan Adar, Brent Hecht, and Nicholas Diakopoulos. 2014. “NewsViews: An Automated Pipeline for Creating Custom Geovisualizations for News.” In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 3005–3014. New York: ACM.https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288
  • Gillespie, Tarleton. 2014. “The Relevance of Algorithms.” In Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society, edited by Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo Boczkowski, and Kirsten Foot, 167–193. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262525374.001.0001
  • Hall, Stuart. 1981. “The Determination of News Photographs.” In The Manufacture of News: A Reader, edited by Stanley Cohen and Jock Young, 226–243. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
  • Haustein, Stefanie, Timothy D. Bowman, Kim Holmberg, Andrew Tsou, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, and Vincent Larivière. 2015. “Tweets as Impact Indicators: Examining the Implications of Automated Bot Accounts on Twitter.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. arXiv:1410.4139v1.
  • Hwang, Tim, Ian Pearce, and Max Nanis. 2012. “Socialbots: Voices From the Fronts.” Interactions 19 (2): 38–45.https://doi.org/10.1145/2090150
  • Jupp, Victor. 2006. The SAGE Dictionary of Social Research Methods. Sage.https://doi.org/10.4135/9780857020116
  • Kovach, Bill, and Tom Rosenstiel. 2007. The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect. New York: Three Rivers Press.
  • Larsson, Anders Olof, and Hallvard Moe. 2014. “Bots or Journalists? News Sharing on Twitter.” Communications – The European Journal of Communication Research. http://www.academia.edu/9372564/Bots_or_Journalists_News_Sharing_on_Twitter
  • Lee, Kyumin, Brian David Eoff, and James Caverlee. 2011. “Seven Months with the Devils: A Long-Term Study of Content Polluters on Twitter.” In Proceedings of the 5th AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social media. Menlo Park, CA: The AAAI Press.
  • Lofland, John, and Lyn H. Lofland. 2005. Analyzing Social Settings: a Guide to Qualitative Observation and Analysis. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
  • McBride, Kelly, and Tom Rosenstiel, eds. 2013. The New Ethics of Journalism: Principles for the 21st Century. Thousand Oaks, CA: CQ Press.
  • Messias, Johnnatan, Lucas Schmidt, Ricardo Oliveira, and Fabrício Benevenuto. 2013. “You Followed my Bot! Transforming Robots into Influential Users in Twitter.” First Monday 18 (7).
  • Mittal, Sudip, and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru. 2014. “Broker Bots: Analyzing Automated Activity During High Impact Events on Twitter.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.4286.
  • Mustafaraj, Eni, and P.Takis Metaxas. 2010. “From Obscurity to Prominence in Minutes: Political Speech and Real-Time Search.” In Proceedings of the WebSci10: Extending the Frontiers of Society On-Line. Raleigh, NC: US.
  • Napoli, Philip M. 2015. “Social Media and the Public Interest: Governance of News Platforms in the Realm of Individual and Algorithmic Gatekeepers.” Telecommunications Policy.
  • Ratkiewicz, Jacob, Michael Conover, Mark Meiss, Bruno Gonçalves, Alessandro Flammini, and Filippo Menczer. 2011. “Detecting and Tracking Political Abuse in Social Media.” In Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 297–304. Menlo Park, CA: The AAAI Press.
  • Shearer, Matt, Simon Basile & Geiger, Clement. 2014. “Datastringer: Easy Dataset Monitoring for Journalists.” In Proceedings of Symposium on Computation + Journalism.
  • Shoemaker, Pamela J., Tsan-Kuo Chang, and Nancy Brendlinger. 1987. “Deviance as a Predictor of Newsworthiness: Coverage of International Events in the US Media.” In Communication Yearbook, edited by Margaret L. McLaughlin, Vol. 10: 348–365. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
  • Starbird, Kate, Leysia Palen, Amanda L. Hughes, and Sarah Vieweg. 2010. “Chatter on the Red: What Hazards Threat Reveals About the Social Life of Microblogged Information.” In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 241–250. New York: ACM.https://doi.org/10.1145/1718918
  • Steiner, Thomas. 2014. “Telling Breaking News Stories from Wikipedia with Social Multimedia: A Case Study of the 2014 Winter Olympics.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.4289.
  • Tavares, Gabriela, and Aldo Faisal. 2013. “Scaling-Laws of Human Broadcast Communication Enable Distinction between Human, Corporate and Robot Twitter Users.” PLoS ONE 8 (7): e65774.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065774
  • Wagner, Claudia, Silvia Mitter, Christian Körner, and Markus Strohmaier. 2012. “When Social Bots Attack: Modeling Susceptibility of Users in Online Social Networks.” In Proceedings of WWW: 21th International Conference on World Wide Web, 41–48. New York: ACM.
  • Wald, Randall, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Amri Napolitano, and Chris Sumner. 2013. “Predicting Susceptibility to Social Bots on Twitter.” In Information Reuse and Integration (IRI), 2013 IEEE 14th International Conference, 6–13. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE.https://doi.org/10.1109/IRI.2013.6642447
  • Wilkie, Alex, Mike Michael, and Matthew Plummer‐Fernandez. 2014. “Speculative Method and Twitter: Bots, Energy and Three Conceptual Characters.” The Sociological Review 63 (1): 79–101.
  • Young, Mary Lynn, and Alfred Hermida. 2014. “From Mr and Mrs Outlier to Central Tendencies: Computational Journalism and Crime Reporting at the Los Angeles Times.” Digital Journalism 3 (3): 381–397.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.