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Manufacturing consensus : understanding propaganda in the era of automation and anonymity / Samuel Woolley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woolley, Samuel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social media--Political aspects.
- Social media.
- Digital media--Political aspects.
- Digital media.
- Communication in politics--Technological innovations.
- Communication in politics.
- Propaganda--Technological innovations.
- Propaganda.
- Disinformation--Technological innovations.
- Disinformation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 214 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- Until recently, propaganda was a top-down, elite-only system of communication control used largely by state actors. Samuel Woolley argues that social media has democratized today's propaganda, allowing nearly anyone to launch a fairly sophisticated, computationally enhanced influence campaign.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Propaganda, Social Media, and Political Bots
- 2 Understanding Manufactured Consensus
- 3 State Use of Computational Propaganda
- 4 Automated Political Infl uencers
- 5 Social Media Companies, the Technology Industry, and Propaganda
- 6 Journalism and Political Bots
- Conclusion: Provocations, Solutions, and the Future of Manufacturing Consensus
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-204) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 29, 2023).
- Other Format:
- 9780300251234
- ISBN:
- 9780300269154
- 0300269153
- OCLC:
- 1367325422
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