The Politics of Social Media Manipulation

Richard Rogers, PhD, is Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, and Director of the Digital Methods Initiative. He is author of Information Politics on the Web and Digital Methods (both MIT Press) and Doing Digital Methods (SAGE). Sabine Niederer is Professor of Visual Methodologies at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Her research focuses on the cartography of issues and online debates through visual and digital methods, with a particular interest in climate-related issues. In 2014, Niederer founded the Citizen Data Lab as an applied research lab specializing in participatory mapping of local issues.

1. The politics of social media manipulation - Richard Rogers and Sabine Niederer
2. Political news on Facebook during the Dutch elections - Stijn Peeters and Richard Rogers
3. Political news in search engines: Exploring Google's susceptibility to hyperpartisan sources - Guillén Torres and Richard Rogers
4. The circulation of political news on Twitter during the Dutch elections - Sabine Niederer and Maarten Groen
5. Dutch political Instagram: Junk news, follower ecologies and artificial amplification - Gabriele Colombo and Carlo De Gaetano
6. Dutch junk news on Reddit and 4chan/pol - Sal Hagen and Emilija Jokubauskaite
7. Fake news and the Dutch YouTube political debate space - Marc Tuters
8. Conclusions: Mainstream under fire - Richard Rogers and Sabine Niederer
9. Epilogue: After the Twitter storm - Richard Rogers and Sal Hagen
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