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Disinformation and Data Lockdown on Social Platforms (Hardcover)
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Disinformation and Data Lockdown on Social Platforms (Hardcover)
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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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