id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
spir-8434	Abokhodair, Norah; Woolley, Samuel; Howard, Philip; McDonald, David	ARCHITECTURE FOR UNDERSTANDING THE AUTOMATED IMAGINARY: A WORKING QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGY FOR RESEARCH ON POLITICAL BOTS	2015.0	5	.pdf	application/pdf	252	23	-389	Paper presented at Internet Research 16: The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers. Selected Papers of Internet Research 16: The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers Phoenix, AZ, USA / 21-24 October 2015 ! ARCHITECTURE FOR UNDERSTANDING THE AUTOMATED IMAGINARY: A WORKING QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGY FOR RESEARCH ON POLITICAL BOTS ) Norah&Abokhodair&& University&of&Washington,&Information&School&& & Samuel&Woolley& University&of&Washington,&Communication&Department& & Philip&Howard& University&of&Washington,&Communication&Department& & David&McDonald& University&of&Washington,&Human&Centered&Design&and&Engineering&Department& Introduction) Social&media&–&especially&social&networking&sites&–&have&substantially&transformed&the& ways&in&which&people&discuss&current&affairs&and&obtain&political&news&and&information.& Because&of&increased&affordances&for&building&and&maintaining&social&connections,& young&people&are&better&able&to&cultivate&a&political&identity&and&engage&civically&in&both& authoritarian&and&democratic&regimes&[1].&Activist&causes&and&democratic&movements& have&been&born,&organized&and&disseminated&on&sites&including&Facebook,&Twitter,& Weibo,&and&YouTube&[2].&Like&any&technology,&though,&the&interfaces,&applications,&and& modes&of&communication&on&social&networking&sites&are&in&constant&negotiation,& transformation,&and&repurposing&–&and&by&a&wide&variety&of&social&and&political&actors.	cache/spir-8434.pdf	txt/spir-8434.txt