Social media and democracy : : the state of the field, prospects for reform / / edited by Nathaniel Persily, Joshua A. Tucker.

• Superior document: SSRC Anxieties of Democracy
• TeilnehmendeR: Persily, Nathaniel,; Tucker, Joshua A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, UK : : Cambridge University Press,, [2020]
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: SSRC anxieties of democracy.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 345 pages) :; illustrations.

"Widespread concern about the effects of social media on democracy has led to an explosion in research over the last five years. This research comes from disparate corners of academia: departments of political science, psychology, law, communication, economics, and computer science, alongside n...

Table of Contents

• Introduction / Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker
• Misinformation, disinformation, and online propaganda / Andrew M. Guess and Benjamin A. Lyons
• Social media, echo chambers, and political polarization / Pablo Barbera
• Online hate speech / Alexandra A. Siegel
• Bots and CompBots computational propaganda : automation for communication and controlutational propaganda / Samuel C. Woolley
• Online political advertising in the United States / Erika Franklin Fowler, Michael M. Franz, and Travis N. Ridout
• Democratic creative destruction? : the effect of a changing media landscape on democracy / Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Richard Fletcher
• Misinformation and its correction / Chloe Wittenberg and Adam J. Berinsky
• Comparative media regulation in the US and Europe / Francis Fukuyama and Andrew Grotto
• Facts and where to find them: empirical research on Internet platforms and online speech / Daphne Keller and Paddy Leerssen
• Dealing with disinformation : evaluating the case for CDA 230 amendment / Tim Hwang
• Democratic transparency in the platform society / Robert Gorwa and Timothy Garton Ash
• Conclusion : the challenges and opportunities for social media research / Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker.