Social media and democracy : the state of the field, prospects for reform /

"Widespread concern about the effects of social media on democracy has led to an explosion in research over the last five years. This research comes from disparate corners of academia: departments of political science, psychology, law, communication, economics, and computer science, alongside n...

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Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Other Authors: Persily, Nathaniel (Editor), Tucker, Joshua A. (Joshua Aaron), 1971- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Series:SSRC anxieties of democracy.
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505 0 |a Introduction / Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker -- Misinformation, disinformation, and online propaganda / Andrew M. Guess and Benjamin A. Lyons -- Social media, echo chambers, and political polarization / Pablo Barbera -- Online hate speech / Alexandra A. Siegel -- Bots and computational propaganda : automation for communication and control / Samuel C. Woolley -- Online political advertising in the United States / Erika Franklin Fowler, Michael M. Franz, and Travis N. Ridout -- Democratic creative destruction? : the effect of a changing media landscape on democracy / Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Richard Fletcher -- Misinformation and its correction / Chloe Wittenberg and Adam J. Berinsky -- Comparative media regulation in the United States and Europe / Francis Fukuyama and Andrew Grotto -- Facts and where to find them : empirical research on Internet platforms and content moderation / Daphne Keller and Paddy Leerssen -- Dealing with disinformation : evaluating the case for amendment of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act / Tim Hwang -- Democratic transparency in the platform society / Robert Gorwa and Timothy Garton Ash -- Conclusion : the challenges and opportunities for social media research / Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker. 
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650 0 |a Online social networks  |x Political aspects. 
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650 0 |a Information technology  |x Political aspects. 
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650 0 |a Political participation  |x Technological innovations. 
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