1st Edition

Disinformation and Data Lockdown on Social Platforms

Edited By Shawn Walker, Dan Mercea, Marco Bastos Copyright 2022
150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction: The disinformation landscape and the lockdown of social platforms 
Shawn Walker, Dan Mercea and Marco Bastos 
2. After the ‘APIcalypse’: social media platforms and their fight against critical scholarly research 
Axel Bruns 
3. An end to the wild west of social media research: a response to Axel Bruns 
Cornelius Puschmann 
4. Overcoming terms of service: a proposal for ethical distributed research 
Alexander Halavais 
5. Data craft: a theory/methods package for critical internet studies 
Amelia Acker and Joan Donovan 
6. Diverging patterns of interaction around news on social media: insularity and partisanship during the 2018 Italian election campaign 
Fabio Giglietto, Augusto Valeriani, Nicola Righetti and Giada Marino 
7. Algorithms and agenda-setting in Wikileaks’ #Podestaemails release 
Nicholas Proferes and Ed Summers 
8. Disinformation, performed: self-presentation of a Russian IRA account on Twitter 
Yiping Xia, Josephine Lukito, Yini Zhang, Chris Wells, Sang Jung Kim and Chau Tong 

Biography

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.