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Redes sociales, participación ciudadana y la hipótesis del slacktivismo: lecciones del caso de "El Bronco" / Social Media, Civic Engagement, and the Slacktivism Hypothesis: Lessons from Mexico's "El Bronco"
Philip N. Howard, Saiph Savage, Claudia Flores-Saviaga +2
El uso de las redes sociales tiene consecuencias positivas o negativas en la participación ciudadana? La gran parte de los intentos por responder a esta pregunta incluyen datos de…
Botivist: Calling Volunteers to Action Using Online Bots
Saiph Savage, Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Tobias Hollerer
To help activists call new volunteers to action, we present Botivist: a platform that uses Twitter bots to find potential volunteers and request contributions. By leveraging differ…
Tag Me Maybe: Perceptions of Public Targeted Sharing on Facebook
Saiph Savage, Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Kasturi Bhattacharjee +1
Social network sites allow users to publicly tag people in their posts. These tagged posts allow users to share to both the general public and a targeted audience, dynamically asse…
Political Bots and the Manipulation of Public Opinion in Venezuela
Michelle Forelle, Phil Howard, Andrés Monroy-Hernández +1
Social and political bots have a small but strategic role in Venezuelan political conversations. These automated scripts generate content through social media platforms and then in…
Is Anyone Out There? Unpacking Q&A Hashtags on Twitter
Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski, Emma S. Spiro, Jorge Nathan Matias +2
In addition to posting news and status updates, many Twitter users post questions that seek various types of subjective and objective information. These questions are often labeled…
Participatory Militias: An Analysis of an Armed Movement's Online Audience
Saiph Savage, Andrés Monroy-Hernández
Armed groups of civilians known as "self-defense forces" have ousted the powerful Knights Templar drug cartel from several towns in Michoacan. This militia uprising has unfolded on…