Docket+ 4 September
Docket+ is a weekly roundup of the latest influence operations-related academic research, events and job opportunities.
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Highlights
- The Ethics of Outsourcing Information Conflict: Outlining the Responsibilities of Government Funders to their Civil Society Partners (NATO StratComCoE, 28 August)
- ‘Defending democracy’ a losing strategy against authoritarian narratives (ASPI, 1 September)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Three Approaches to Platform Studies: Cobweb, Billiard Balls, and Ant Societies (SAGE, 26 August)
- Multimodal Detection of Social Spambots in Twitter using Transformers (ArXiv, 28 August)
- Public Legitimation by “Going Personal”? The Ambiguous Role of International Organization Officials on Social Media (Cogitatio, 31 August)
1.2 World News
- What Makes Customers More Engaged on Social Media? An Investigation of Customers’ Responses to Brand-Generated Content on Twitter (T&F, 29 August)
- “We’re tolerant and they’re prejudiced”: Same-sex marriage supporters’ and opponents’ perceptions of supportive and oppositional claims (Plos One, 29 August)