Meanwhile, I also have a new chapter in the Handbook of Social and Communication Networks, by @toledobastos.bsky.social and @lrossi.bsky.social. Here I explore the way gatewatching and newssharing practices are affected by platform policies, using the example of the Facebook News Bans in 🇦🇺/🇨🇦.
I'm happy to announce that the Handbook of Social and Communication Networks is finally out: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han... The work, co-edited with @toledobastos.bsky.social , attempts to define what happens when network science meets communication studies. It's a collection of works,
Handbook of Social and Communication Networks
This comprehensive Handbook explores the application of social network analysis and network science in the field of communication studies. Leading experts examine the interactions between social and c...
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@mwhitehorse.bsky.social and @toledobastos.bsky.social shows X under Elon Musk as firmly interwoven with open source intelligence and state surveillance tools as provided by Palantir, Babel Street, and other deeply problematic actors with an anti-democratic and techno-utopian mindset.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Government engagement with the #UAP & #UFO topic has a quantifiable effect in subsiding disinformation concerns and conspiratorial narratives.
Between disclosure and conspiracy: the transparency effect on r/UFO and r/UAP subreddits
While there exists genuine scientific inquiry seeking to understand Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), the lore of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) is deeply intertwined with narratives del...
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It can’t be turned off. Computer says no. Skynet says amen.
A new microsite dropped. Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers. Which of you did this c'mon, hilarious. buff.ly/Qc4gp7x
JOB: lecturer/assistant professor in global film and media studies. 5yr contract, salary scale €64,753-€102,538, closes noon (Irish time) on October 20th. pls share and lmk if you have any questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU194/l...
Excellent opening keynote at the inaugural Search Engines and Society (#SEASON2025) conference in Hamburg by the great @spielkamp.bsky.social from @algorithmwatch.org – such important work. Liveblog here, with more to come (including our paper tomorrow):
A Brief History of AlgorithmWath and Its Fight for Algorithmic Accountability | Snurblog — Axel Bruns
After a week spent in Brussels and at the 25th anniversary of the Center for Internet Research in
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Our contribution to understanding the fractured reality of the Russo-Ukrainian War. We found substantive misalignment in the event selection of British and Russian news outlets. Behind the Enemy News: issue salience in the Russo-Ukrainian War www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Behind the Enemy News: issue salience in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Agenda-setting theory and warfare studies hold that setting the national agenda is strategically advantageous to foreign policy goals. We probe this theory on the Russo-Ukrainian War by analysing t...
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Our contribution to the automation vs augmentation debate. Strategising with generative AI: Productivity gains in social media marketing www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Strategising with generative AI: Productivity gains in social media marketing
This study explores the use of ChatGPT for social media marketing and its potential impact on employment. We take stock of the literature on productivity gain and automation of work to unpack the r...
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Here is our study that offers some validation to the amplification hypothesis (Phillips 2018) and the related, but perhaps less studied, audience capture hypothesis (Weiss and Winter 2018). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Finally out our experimental study on how ChatGPT can reinforce beliefs as incorrect information provided by the service goes unchecked and unverified by users. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Our Centre membes @toledobastos.bsky.social, @paraickerrigan.bsky.social and colleague Chirsto Jacobs have released a new publications on ChatGPT and the "incorrect but proattitudinal information that remains unchecked and unverified by the users." Access the article on the link below!
Marco Bastos@toledobastos.bsky.social · last yr.Finally out our experimental study on how ChatGPT can reinforce beliefs as incorrect information provided by the service goes unchecked and unverified by users. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The grammar of influence operations and romance scams is quickly becoming the same. It’s not the Internet you dreamed of but it’s the Internet we have. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Visual Identities in Troll Farms: The Twitter Moderation Research Consortium - Marco Bastos, 2025
The Twitter Moderation Research Consortium is a database of network propaganda and influence operations that includes 115,474 unique Twitter accounts, millions ...
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Finally out our experimental study on how ChatGPT can reinforce beliefs as incorrect information provided by the service goes unchecked and unverified by users. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.
ONLINE FIRST! How have Facebook’s News Feed algorithm changes (2011-2020) impacted user engagement with news content? This study by Naoise McNally and @toledobastos.bsky.social finds that changes to the algorithm reduced user engagement with news content. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The News Feed is Not a Black Box: A Longitudinal Study of Facebook’s Algorithmic Treatment of News
This study examines the effects of a series of significant algorithm changes within Facebook’s News Feed on user engagement with news content on the platform between 2011-2020. By tracking public a...
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Facebook News Feed is not a black box. Changes to the algorithm can reduce user engagement with news content, particularly with hard news content. The News Feed is Not a Black Box: A Longitudinal Study of Facebook’s Algorithmic Treatment of News. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The News Feed is Not a Black Box: A Longitudinal Study of Facebook’s Algorithmic Treatment of News
This study examines the effects of a series of significant algorithm changes within Facebook’s News Feed on user engagement with news content on the platform between 2011-2020. By tracking public a...
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even though the idea and the intention are good, i don't understand how this will help to deal with climate deniers. here is one text about disinformation as a narrative by prof @toledobastos.bsky.social and marc tuters if you want to know more about it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Meaningful disinformation: Narrative rituals and affective folktales - Marco Bastos, Marc Tuters, 2023
In this article, we review the epistemological boundaries of disinformation studies and argue that they are informed by network and transmission models where th...
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Delighted to share this paper with my PhD advisor @toledobastos.bsky.social , now published open access in New Media & Society. Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
