Disinformation and Data Lockdown on Social Platforms
Language: English
Published by Taylor and Francis, 2024
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- Disinformation and Data Lockdown on Social Platforms
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- Taylor and Francis
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- 2024
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- New
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- English
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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.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Information, Communication & Society.
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About the Author
Shawn Walker is Assistant Professor of Data & Society in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University.
Dan Mercea is Reader in the Department of Sociology at City, University of London.
Marco Bastos is the University College Dublin Ad Astra Fellow at the School of Information and Communication Studies.
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