Part I: Theoretical Introduction and Analytical Frame
Introduction: Computational Propaganda Worldwide
Chapter 1 - Russia: The Origins of Digital Misinformation
Chapter 2 - Ukraine: External Threats and Internal Challenges
Chapter 3 - Canada: Building Bot Typologies
Chapter 4 - Poland: Unpacking the Ecosystem of Social Media
Manipulation
Chapter 5 - Taiwan: Digital Democracy Meets Automated Autocracy
Chapter 6 - Brazil: Political Bot Intervention During Pivotal
Events
Chapter 7 - Germany: A Cautionary Tale
Chapter 8 - United States: Manufacturing Consensus Online
Chapter 9 - China: An Alternative Model of a Widespread
Practice
Conclusion: Political Parties, Politicians, and Computational
Propaganda
Index
Samuel C. Woolley is Assistant Professor in the School of
Journalism at the University of Texas, Austin.
Philip N. Howard is Director and Professor at the Oxford Internet
Institute at University of Oxford.
They are the co-founders of the Computational Propaganda Project.
This research endeavour is focused on the study of the manipulation
of public opinion via online spaces. The project is based at the
Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford.
"[Computational Propaganda] offers robust data-driven evidence
around the degree to which social and political manipulation occurs
over social media, in countries and contexts, as well as within
communities in more mature liberal democracies." -- Sanjana
Hattotuwa, The Island
"In the first two decades of the worldwide web, Internet studies
focused on how the technology expands social and political space.
The 2010s have brought ample evidence of that space being colonized
by the usual suspects - states and other powerful anti-democratic
actors. This book makes a major contribution to our understanding
of how various digital methods, from automated scripts to human
trolls, are being harnessed to pollute the information
ecosystem,
divide societies, and manipulate public opinion. Through their
systematic and sober multi-country study, the authors push for
evidence-based responses, to avoid the kind of moral panic that in
many
societies is leading to hasty and ill-conceived regulation."
-Cherian George, Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense
and its Threat to Democracy
"Propaganda used to be broadcast--today, propaganda flows in
digital networks of human as well as non-human agents. This timely
volume brings together a unique set of case studies from around the
world revealing the current state of computational
propaganda."-Klaus Bruhn Jensen, A Handbook of Media and
Communication Research: Qualitative and Quantitative
Methodologies
"For a long time, politicians struggled to make sense of social
media. Then in one electoral season, bots, blogs, YouTube posts and
other types of social media amplifiers turned election projections,
referenda, and the political landscape upside down. What you
thought you knew about the political process is wrong. You have
been misinformed. Read this excellent book and find out why."-Zizi
Papacharissi, Affective Publics: sentiment, Technology, and
Politics
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