Are social bots a real threat? An agent-based model of the spiral of silence to analyse the impact of manipulative actors in social networks.
Björn RossLaura PilzBenjamin CabreraFlorian BrachtenGerman NeubaumStefan StieglitzPublished in: Eur. J. Inf. Syst. (2019)
Keyphrases
- social networks
- social interaction
- social groups
- social network analysis
- social media
- social relationships
- social structure
- social networking
- social web
- link prediction
- social graphs
- communication patterns
- online social networks
- online communities
- complex networks
- social behavior
- overlapping community detection
- social factors
- social network data
- social relations
- network evolution
- information flow
- online social
- real world
- small world
- social systems
- social influence
- social dynamics
- influence propagation
- social roles
- countermeasures