Bots, Algorithms, and Political Narratives | Stats + Stories Episode 396
There's a lot of concern about how bots and algorithms shape our experiences, both online and off. Increasingly, those concerns are focused on our politics. Can bots fuel political polarization? Can algorithms shape political narratives? A recent study seeks to understand the agenda-building capabilities of social bots in a political context, and that is a focus of this episode of Stats and Stories, with Phillip Arceneaux and Josh Anderson. Phillip Arceneaux is an assistant professor of strategic communication in Miami University’s Department of Media, Journalism & Film, where he specializes…
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