Guerrilla Media: Interactive Social Media

Duh, Andrej; Meznaric, Sebastian; Korošak, Dean

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-54484-2_17

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“…The average spin = F G C C measures of the activity of a group of users at time t. In a spin glass model of interacting group of users introduced in previous section (eqs. [3][4][5][6], the probability that a user will tweet in the next moment depends on the state of all other users in the group (tweeting or not) and on the influence of external events. This is similar to the economic market models 22,25 where the price of a commodity emerges as a result of decisions of interacting agents whether to buy the commodity or not.…”

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Collective Behavior of Social Bots Is Encoded in Their Temporal Twitter Activity

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Computational propaganda deploys social or political bots to try to shape, steer, and manipulate online public discussions and influence decisions. Collective behavior of populations of social bots has not been yet widely studied, although understanding of collective patterns arising from interactions between bots would aid social bot detection. In this study, we show that there are significant differences in collective behavior between population of bots and population of humans as detected from their Twitter activity. Using a large dataset of tweets we have collected during the UK-EU referendum campaign, we separated users into population of bots and population of humans based on the length of sequences of their high-frequency tweeting activity. We show that, while pairwise correlations between users are weak, they co-exist with collective correlated states; however the statistics of correlations and co-spiking probability differ in both populations. Our results demonstrate that populations of social bots and human users in social media exhibit collective properties similar to the ones found in social and biological systems placed near a critical point.

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“…Social bots are automated user accounts in online social networks owned and used by computers [1][2][3] . Social media, such as Twitter or Facebook, that support high spreadability and convergence of content [4][5][6] particularly during influential political events [7][8][9][10] are particularly susceptible targets for such entities.…”

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Collective Behavior of Social Bots Is Encoded in Their Temporal Twitter Activity

2018

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“…The Internet and social media in particular are the enablers of media convergence, a phenomenon characterized by flow of content and migration of users, linking together content, communication and computation [1,2]. However, besides positive effects of convergence such as the rise of collective processes of information consumption and consumer-generated media, we are recently witnessing the emergence of fast traveling fake news influencing collective human decisions [3,4], helped also by spreading of automated content generation [5].…”

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Publish-and-Flourish: Using Blockchain Platform to Enable Cooperative Scholarly Communication

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Scholarly communication is today immersed in publish-or-perish culture that propels non-cooperative behavior in the sense of strategic games played by researchers. Here we introduce and describe a blockchain based platform for decentralized scholarly communication. The design of the platform rests on community driven publishing reviewing processes and implements cryptoeconomic incentives that promote cooperative user behavior. The key to achieve cooperation in blockchain based scholarly communication is to transform today’s static research paper into a modifiable research paper under continuous peer review process. We introduce and discuss the implementation of a modifiable research paper as a smart contract on the blockchain.

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Guerrilla Media: Interactive Social Media

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Collective Behavior of Social Bots Is Encoded in Their Temporal Twitter Activity

Collective Behavior of Social Bots Is Encoded in Their Temporal Twitter Activity

Publish-and-Flourish: Using Blockchain Platform to Enable Cooperative Scholarly Communication

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