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1/ In my Tech, Media and Democracy course this week we read @katestarbird et al on frame contests in the discourse around #BlackLivesMatter- this paper, from 2017, is worth you reading. But there was a surprise... faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Stewar…
@katestarbird 2/ The 2017 paper included a visualization of the contest between the frames showed right- and left-leaning superclusters of twitter activity, with very little information moving between the frames. But Starbird and her colleagues were in for a surprise later....
@katestarbird 3/ When Twitter published a dataset of IRA accounts identified as part of the social media campaign to interfere in American politics in 2016, the researchers went back to their notes. They were able to identify that some of the accounts they mapped.... medium.com/s/story/the-tr…
@katestarbird 4/ .... were actually IRA accounts. And the fascinating- "creepy", as Starbird put it- fact is that they were expertly nested inside the two sides. This is the same visualization, with the overlay of the IRA accounts.
@katestarbird 5/ The IRA effort was surprisingly nuanced. Combined with the GRU effort, it's a serious challenge. I'm reminded these last few days how unprepared we are, still, to confront it in 2020.
@katestarbird 6/ We also had a brief masterclass from @noUpside!
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