Avoiding the Drunkard's Search

Llewellyn, Clare; Cram, Laura; Favero, Adrian

doi:10.1145/2910896.2925433

Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE-CS on Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2016

DOI: 10.1145/2910896.2925433

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Avoiding the Drunkard's Search

Clare Llewellyn

Laura Cram

Adrian Favero

Abstract: We investigate methods for collecting data to form an archive on the debate within Twitter surrounding the UK's inclusion in the EU. We use three strategies, gathering data using hashtags, extracting data from the random stream and collecting from users known to be discussing the debate. We explore the various bias in the resulting datasets.

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For Whom the Bell Trolls: Shifting Troll Behaviour in the Twitter Brexit Debate

Llewellyn

Cram

Hill

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J of Common Market Studies

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In 2017 Twitter released a list of 2,752 accounts believed to be connected to state-sponsored Russian operative manipulation of the 2016 American Election. We investigate the behaviour of these accounts in the UK-EU referendum using our own unique longitudinal Twitter dataset. We identify Brexit-related content from 419 of these accounts, totalling 3,485 tweets between 29 August 2015 and 3 October 2017. While these accounts were primarily designed to resemble American citizens, accounts created in 2016 contained German and Italian locations and terms in user profiles, suggesting targeting of wider international electoral processes. Brexit was one of many targets, likely indicating coordinated repurposing of 'troll' activity over time. We analyze behavioural shifts in account behaviour in relation to external events, introducing a temporal dimension not typical of political Twitter studies. The 'troll' account behaviour altered radically on UK-EU referendum day, shifting from generalized disruptive tweeting to retweeting other troll accounts to amplify their effect.

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For Whom the Bell Trolls: Shifting Troll Behaviour in the Twitter Brexit Debate

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Cram

Hill

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J of Common Market Studies

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For Whom the Bell Trolls: Shifting Troll Behaviour in the Twitter Brexit Debate

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