The political economy of digital profiteering: communication resource mobilization by anti-vaccination actors
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24 December 2022
Jonathan Bright
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Jonathan Bright is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute who specialises in computational approaches to the social and political sciences. He has two major research interests: exploring the ways in which new digital technologies are changing political participation; and investigating how new forms of data can enable local and national governments to make better decisions.
Jonathan is the Principle Investigator for the Oxford Internet Institute’s Alternative News Networks research project. This project is examining how to understand the health of the UK online information ecosystem and includes the tracking of the spread of divisive and misleading content.
Publications
Conference papers
- (2019) "Algorithmic Bureaucracy Managing Competence, Complexity, and Problem Solving in the Age of Artificial Intelligence", PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL GOVERNMENT RESEARCH (DGO2019): GOVERNANCE IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. dg.o 2019: 20th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 18 – 20 June 2019. ACM. 148-153. (This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from the Association for Computing Machinery at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3325112.3325240)
- (2018) "Estimating traffic disruption patterns with volunteer geographic information", 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED RESEARCH METHODS AND ANALYTICS (CARMA 2018). Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA 2018), England. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. 10 (1) 252. (A previous version of this paper was presented at CARMA 2018: 2nd International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics.)
- (2017) "Where’d it go? How geographic and force-directed layouts affect network task performance", EuroRV3 2017 - EuroVis Workshop on Reproducibility, Verification, and Validation in Visualization. EuroVis Workshop on Reproducibility, Verification, and Validation in Visualization (EuroRV3), Barcelona, Spain. Eurographics Association. 13-17.
- (2016) "The Lightweight Smart City and Biases in Repurposed Big Data", Second International Conference on Human and Social Analytics. The Second International Conference on Human and Social Analytics. International Academy Research and Industry Association. (Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016.)
Journal articles
- (2020) "Smart technology and the emergence of algorithmic bureaucracy: artificial intelligence in UK local authorities", Public Administration Review. 80 (6) 946-961.
- (2020) "The representative deficit in different European Party Systems: an analysis of the elections to the European Parliament 2009-2014", Quaderni dell'Osservatorio Elettorale. 83 (1) 45-57.
- (2020) "Countering Extremists on Social Media: Challenges for Strategic Communication and Content Moderation", POLICY AND INTERNET. 12 (1) 6-19.
- (2019) "Explaining Download Patterns in Open Government Data: Citizen participation or private enterprise?", International Journal of Electronic Governance. 11 (2) 217-234.
- (2019) "Studying Peace and Studying Conflict: Complementary or Competing Projects?", Journal of Global Security Studies. 4 (2) 259-266.
- (2019) "Diagnosing the performance of human mobility models at small spatial scales using volunteered geographical information", ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE. 6 (11) 191034.
- (2019) "Power users in online democracy: their origins and impact", Information, Communication and Society. 23 (13) 1838-1853.
- (2018) "A Divided Discipline? Mapping Peace and Conflict Studies", International Studies Perspectives. 19 (2) 128-147.
- (2018) "Explaining the emergence of political fragmentation on social media: the role of ideology and extremism", Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 23 (1) 17-33.
- (2018) "Understanding news story chains using information retrieval and network clustering techniques", Communication Methods and Measures. 13 (1) 43-59.
- (2018) "OpenStreetMap data for alcohol research: reliability assessment and quality indicators", Health and Place. 50 130-136.
- (2018) "Geodemographic biases in crowdsourced knowledge websites: do neighbours fill in the blanks?", GeoJournal: an international journal on human geography and environmental sciences. 83 (3) 427-440.
- (2017) "Public Policy in the Platform Society", Policy and Internet. 9 (4) 368-373.
- (2017) "Does Campaigning on Social Media Make a Difference? Evidence from candidate use of Twitter during the 2015 and 2017 UK Elections", Communication Research. 47 (7) 988-1009.
- (2016) "Estimating Local Commuting Patterns From Geolocated Twitter Data", Graham McNeill, Jonathan Bright and Scott A Hale (2017) Estimating local commuting patterns from geolocated Twitter data, EPJ Data Science 20176:24 6. 6 (24) 24.
- (2016) "Big Data and Public Policy: Can It Succeed Where E-Participation Has Failed?", Policy and Internet. 8 (3) 218-224.
- (2016) "Europe's voting space and the problem of second-order elections: A transnational proposal", EUROPEAN UNION POLITICS. 17 (1) 184-198.
- (2016) "The Social News Gap: How News Reading and News Sharing Diverge", Journal of Communication. 66 (3) 343-365.
- (2016) "Wikipedia traffic data and electoral prediction: towards theoretically informed models.", EPJ Data Sci.. 5 (1) 22.
- (2015) Mechachal: Online Debates and Elections in Ethiopia. Report Two: Discussing Politics and History in Social Media.
- (2015) Mechachal: Online Debates and Elections in Ethiopia. Report One: A Preliminary Assessment of Online Debates in Ethiopia.
- (2015) "In Search of the Politics of Security", BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. 17 (4) 585-603.
- (2015) "Ministerial Importance and Survival in Government: Tough at the Top?", WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS. 38 (3) 441-464.
- (2015) "Crowdsourcing for Public Policy and Government", POLICY AND INTERNET. 7 (3) 263-267.
- (2015) "The real component of virtual learning: motivations for face-to-face MOOC meetings in developing and industrialised countries", INFORMATION COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY. 18 (10) 1200-1216.
- (2014) "The Life and Death of Political News: Measuring the Impact of the Audience Agenda Using Online Data", Social Science Computer Review. 32 (2) 170-181.
- (2014) "Can electoral popularity be predicted using socially generated big data?", it - Information Technology. 56 (5) 246-253.
- (2013) "Mediating surveillance: the developing landscape of European Online Copyright Enforcement", Journal of Contemporary European Research. 9 (1) 120-137.
- (2012) "Securitisation, terror, and control: towards a theory of the breaking point", Review of International Studies. 38 (4) 861-879.
- (2011) "Building biometrics: knowledge construction in the democratic control of surveillance technology", Surveillance and Society. 9 (1/2) 233-247.
Reports
- (2016) "Mechachal: Online Debates and Elections in Ethiopia - From Hate Speech to Engagement in Social Media" In: Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy. Elsevier BV.
- (2015) "Explaining Usage Patterns in Open Government Data: The Case of Data.Gov.UK" In: SSRN Electronic Journal. Elsevier.
- (2014) "The use of social media for research and analysis: a feasibility study" In: Report of research carried out by the Oxford Internet Institute on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions. Department for Work and Pensions.
Datasets
- (2022) History under attack: Holocaust denial and distortion on social media. Supporting Data.. University of Oxford.
- (2022) Replication Materials: How Do Climate Change Skeptics Engage with Opposing Views Online?. University of Oxford.
- (2022) Replication Materials: How Do Individuals in a Radical Echo Chamber React to Opposing Views?. University of Oxford.
- (2021) How Do Individuals in a Radical Echo Chamber React to Opposing Views? Evidence from a Content Analysis of Stormfront. Supporting Dataset. University of Oxford.
- (2018) Understanding news story chains using information retrieval and network clustering techniques: Replication Data. University of Oxford.
- (2018) OSM UK Alcohol Outlet Counts and Quality Index. University of Oxford.
- (2018) A divided discipline - replication materials. University of Oxford.
- (2018) Replication data: Explaining the emergence of political fragmentation on social media. University of Oxford.