Analyzing Twitter Users' Behavior Before and After Contact by the Russia's Internet Research Agency
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DOI: 10.1145/3449164
Abstract: Social media platforms have been exploited to conduct election interference in recent years. In particular, the Russian-backed Internet Research Agency (IRA) has been identified as a key source of misinformation spread on Twitter prior to… read more here.
Keywords: research; research agency; twitter; internet research ... See more keywords
Doing Internet research with hard-to-reach communities: methodological reflections on gaining meaningful access
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DOI: 10.1177/1468794120904898
Abstract: This article contributes to scholarship on digital sociology by addressing the methodological challenge of gaining access to hard-to-reach online communities. We use assemblage theory to argue how collaborative efforts of human participants, digital technologies, techniques,… read more here.
Keywords: reach communities; internet research; access; hard reach ... See more keywords