For Whom the Bell Trolls: Shifting Troll Behaviour in the Twitter Brexit Debate
For Whom the Bell Trolls: Shifting Troll Behaviour in the Twitter Brexit Debate
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钟声为谁而巨魔:推特脱欧辩论中巨魔行为的转变
DOI:
10.1111/jcms.12882
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发表时间:
2019
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通讯作者:
Llewellyn C
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Llewellyn C
In 2017 Twitter released a list of 2,752 accounts believed to be connected to state‐sponsored Russian operative manipulation of the 2016 American Election. We investigate the behaviour of these accounts in the UK–EU referendum using our own unique longitudinal Twitter dataset. We identify Brexit‐related content from 419 of these accounts, totalling 3,485 tweets between 29 August 2015 and 3 October 2017. While these accounts were primarily designed to resemble American citizens, accounts created in 2016 contained German and Italian locations and terms in user profiles, suggesting targeting of wider international electoral processes. Brexit was one of many targets, likely indicating coordinated repurposing of ‘troll’ activity over time. We analyze behavioural shifts in account behaviour in relation to external events, introducing a temporal dimension not typical of political Twitter studies. The ‘troll’ account behaviour altered radically on UK–EU referendum day, shifting from generalized disruptive tweeting to retweeting other troll accounts to amplify their effect.
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影响因子:
1.3
作者:
E. Briant
通讯作者:
E. Briant
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作者:
F. Keller;David Schoch;Sebastian Stier;JungHwan Yang
通讯作者:
JungHwan Yang
影响因子:
6.1
作者:
Cho, Charles H.;Martens, Martin L.;Rodrigue, Michelle
通讯作者:
Rodrigue, Michelle
DOI:
10.1177/1369148117700659
发表时间:
2017
期刊:
The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
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作者:
Usherwood S
通讯作者:
Usherwood S
DOI:
10.1609/icwsm.v11i1.14924
发表时间:
2017
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作者:
Claire Llewellyn;Laura Cram
通讯作者:
Laura Cram