Press: A growing number of governments are spreading disinformation online
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13 January 2021
Sam Woolley curated a collection of essays from a week-long workshop at Data & Society. The workshop brought together a group of experts to get a better grip on the questions that bots raise for public life:
These essays can be found here.
- How to Think About Bots by Samuel Woolley, danah boyd, Meredith Broussard, Madeleine Elish, Lainna Fader, Tim Hwang, Alexis Lloyd, Gilad Lotan, Luis Daniel Palacios, Allison Parrish, Gilad Rosner, Saiph Savage, and Samantha Shorey
- What is it like to be a bot? by Samantha Shorey
- Activist Bots: Helpful But Missing Human Love? by Saiph Savage
- Bots: A definition and some historical threads by Allison Parrish
- Our friends, the bots? by Alexis Lloyd
- On Paying Attention: How to Think about Bots as Social Actors by Madeleine Elish
- Rise of the Peñabots by Luis Daniel Palacios
- A Brief Survey of Journalistic Twitter Bot Projects by Lainna Fader