Communities of Action

Davis, Steve; Elin, Larry; Reeher, Grant

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“…There is a large body of scholarship exploring the transformative potential of social platforms to complement or substitute deliberative forums supporting civic participation, particularly with respect to access to information, reciprocity of communication, and commercialization of online space (Malina, 2005; Papacharissi, 2002). This scholarship pays tribute to the Habermasian concept of the public sphere, identifying the internet with domains of social life where public opinion could be expressed and often praising digital communication as a force for democratization and deliberation (Davis et al, 2002). The underlying assumption was that social media would offer the public an accord—and perhaps more critically, a public record—of the decision-making process underpinning rational deliberation (Papacharissi, 2008).…”

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This Account Doesn’t Exist: Tweet Decay and the Politics of Deletion in the Brexit Debate

Bastos

2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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Literature on influence operations has identified metrics that are indicative of social media manipulation, but few studies have explored the lifecycle of low-quality information. We contribute to this literature by reconstructing nearly 3 million messages posted by 1 million users in the last days of the Brexit referendum campaign. While previous studies have found that on average only 4% of tweets disappear, we found that 33% of the tweets leading up to the referendum vote are no longer available. Only about half of the most active accounts that tweeted the referendum continue to operate publicly, and 20% of all accounts are no longer active. We tested whether partisan content was more likely to disappear and found more messages from the Leave campaign that disappeared than the entire universe of tweets affiliated with the Remain campaign. We compare these results with an assorted set of 45 hashtags posted in the same period and find that political campaigns present much higher ratios of user and tweet decay. These results are validated by inspecting 2 million Brexit-related tweets posted over a period of nearly 4 years. The article concludes with an overview of these findings and recommendations for future research.

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This Account Doesn’t Exist: Tweet Decay and the Politics of Deletion in the Brexit Debate

Bastos

2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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This Account Doesn’t Exist: Tweet Decay and the Politics of Deletion in the Brexit Debate

This Account Doesn’t Exist: Tweet Decay and the Politics of Deletion in the Brexit Debate

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