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Disinformation and Data Lockdown on Social Platforms

Disinformation and Data Lockdown on Social Platforms

Walker, Shawn
Mercea, Dan
Bastos, Marco

Paperback

General LawGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032074485
ISBN13: 9781032074481
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 29 2024
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.85 Depth: 9.69
Language: English

This book addresses the question of how researchers can conduct independent, ethical research on mal-, mis- and disinformation in a rapidly changing and hostile data environment.

The escalating issue of data access is thrown into sharp relief by the large-scale use of bots, trolls, fake news, and strategies of false amplification, the effects of which are difficult to quantify due to a corporate environment favouring platform lockdowns and the restriction of access to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). As social media platforms increase obstacles to independent scholarship by dramatically curbing access to APIs, researchers are faced with the stark choice of either limiting their use of trace data or developing new methods of data collection. Without a breakthrough, social media research may go the way of search engine research, in which only a small group of researchers who have direct relationships with search companies such as Google and Microsoft can access data and conduct research.

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