📢New article from CUVICOM | Research project 📑 research project: "Indifferent About Online Traffic: The Posting Strategies of Five News Outlets During Musk’s Acquisition of Twitter" Journalism Studies with Mari Vallez Juanjo Boté | @[email protected] Marco T Bastos 50 free online copies ⬇️⬇️⬇️ tandfonline.com/eprint/97HQNMR…

Marco Bastos, integrante do INCT, integra o grupo de pesquisadores que acabou de publicar trabalho na Social Science Computer Review. ➕

I had a great time talking to New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) about my book Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation. Link to the podcast below. newbooksnetwork.com/brexit-tweeted

Dissecting 45 million tweets from the period that followed the #Brexit referendum, 'Brexit, Tweeted' by Marco Bastos (Marco T Bastos) presents an extensive analysis of social media manipulation. Listen to Marco discuss his new book with New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social): ow.ly/lN6250TJwTX

Local news FTW!

Cool new paper by Duke computational social scientist Jon Green on "curation bubbles": cambridge.org/core/journals/…

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. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Os dados mostram que intervenções estratégicas no algoritmo do Feed têm impacto significativo no engajamento com notícias importantes, enquanto opinião, estilo de vida, esportes e artes foram menos afetados. Saiba mais: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #plataformas #algoritmos #Facebook

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/10.1177/20…

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/10.1177/20…

Um banco de dados contendo mais de 115 mil contas removidas do Twitter entre 2017 e 2022 foi analisado por Marcos Bastos, do INCT-DSI, para identificar padrões visuais em perfis falsos utilizados em operações de propaganda. O estudo foi publicado pela Social Media + Society. 👇

🤖🏳️‍🌈 ChatGPT’s LGBTQIA+-related answers up to 84% less accurate than Google searches, study finds... 🧵 🕵️‍♀️ Led by researchers at the UCD School of Information and Communication Studies, the study explored how ChatGPT may reinforce incorrect beliefs. 🇮🇳 Participants from Ireland

Our Centre membes Marco T Bastos and Páraic Kerrigan, and Christo Jacob 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!

Findings from recent research by Marco T Bastos, Páraic Kerrigan and Christo Jacob reveals the inaccuraties and misinformation shared by ChatGPT AI. Access the article at the link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

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). tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Como funcionaram os fluxos de desinformação nas eleições brasileiras de 2022? Estudo lançado recentemente e com participação dos pesquisadores do INCT-DSI Marco Bastos, Raquel Recuero e Otávio Vinhas busca respostas a essa questão. 👇

Our contribution to the automation vs augmentation debate. Strategising with generative AI: Productivity gains in social media marketing tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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 tandfonline.com/action/showCop…

O uso do ChatGPT para marketing em mídias sociais e o impacto no trabalho de quem atua na área é tema de estudo que acaba de ser publicado e tem a participação de Marco Bastos, pesquisador do INCT-DSI. 👇

Novo estudo investiga como a mídia define o que é importante durante a guerra entre Rússia e Ucrânia. Ele tem como um dos autores Marco Bastos, do INCT-DSI. São analisadas as coberturas de cinco veículos: BBC News, BBC News Russian, RIA Novosti, RT International e RT Russian.