Politician – An Imitation Game

Kuboň, David; Metheniti, Eleni; Hladká, Barbora

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-77547-0_15

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“…On certain platforms, contact with the public is not produced by the parliamentarian or the PA, but rather by an inanimate intermediary: a machine. Its main goal is to carry on a conversation and be as indistinguishable from a human as possible (Kuboň, Metheniti, & Hladká, 2017).…”

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Political “Postwriting” on Facebook: Public Perceptions About Parliamentarians’ (Un)Real SNS Involvement

Ben-Porat

Lehman‐Wilzig

2019

Social Media + Society

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Theoretical research on political communication between MPs and the public has focused on the role, activities, and perceptions of the MPs themselves without noting the existence of an intermediate layer: parliamentary assistants (PAs). This study attempts to investigate how the public perceives, practically and ethically, the (non)involvement of MPs, that is, reliance on PAs for SNSs (social network sites) communication with the public and to fill out the theoretical void in the discourse process. Questionnaires were sent to all 120 members of the 20th Israeli Knesset (MKs), with 44 responding. We examined the extent of their involvement and the MKs’ use patterns of Facebook, creating a model of four MK involvement levels. The idea was to check the extent of PAs’ authoring posts on behalf of MKs, what we call “Postwriting” (= post ghostwriting) in the MK’s name (or giving the impression that the MKs had themselves posted). Then we conducted a public opinion poll ( N = 505) in order to discern what the public thought about the nature of its relationship with MKs on Facebook, compared to the findings that emerged from the model of the MKs’ involvement in actual practice. The two parts of the study also enabled us to investigate the ethical perceptions and implications arising from the study.

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Political “Postwriting” on Facebook: Public Perceptions About Parliamentarians’ (Un)Real SNS Involvement

Ben-Porat

Lehman‐Wilzig

2019

Social Media + Society

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“…Users show a growing interest in chatbots, not only for small talk, but also as aids for productivity tasks, entertainment, and communication [4]. Successful chatbot applications in real-world usage include customer assistance, conversational commerce, ELIZA-like "chatterbot" conversations [14], virtual assistants, which may exploit contextual information or known personal preferences [1], multiplayer games [13], or emphatic learning companions for kids [26].…”

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Adapting a Conversational Text Generator for Online Chatbot Messaging

Klopfenstein

Delpriori

Alessio

2019

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Conversational interfaces and chatbots have a long history, but have only recently been hyped as a disruptive technology ready to replace mobile apps and Web sites. Many online messaging platforms have introduced support to third-party chatbots, which can be procedurally programmed, but usually rely on a retrieval-based specification language (such as AIML), natural language processing to detect the user's intent, or on machine learning. In this work we present a work-in-progress integration of a widely-used system for story generation, the Tracery grammar, a conversational agent design tool, the Bottery system, and online messaging platforms. The proposed system provides a complete and easy-to-use system that allows the creation of chatbots with a graph-based dialogue structure, a contextual memory, pattern-based text matching, and advanced text generation capabilities, that aims for being well-suited for experts and technically unskilled authors alike. Features of the system and future additions are discussed and compared to existing solutions.

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Political discourse through artificial intelligence: parliamentary practices and public perceptions of chatbot communication in social media

Ben-Porat¹,

Lehman‐Wilzig²

2020

The Rhetoric of Political Leadership

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Politician – An Imitation Game

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

Political “Postwriting” on Facebook: Public Perceptions About Parliamentarians’ (Un)Real SNS Involvement

Political “Postwriting” on Facebook: Public Perceptions About Parliamentarians’ (Un)Real SNS Involvement

Adapting a Conversational Text Generator for Online Chatbot Messaging

Political discourse through artificial intelligence: parliamentary practices and public perceptions of chatbot communication in social media

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