Disinformation in Open Online Media - First Multidisciplinary International Symposium, MISDOOM 2019, Hamburg, Germany, February 27 - March 1, 2019, Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Multidisciplinary International Symposium, MISDOOM 2019, held in Hamburg, Germany, in February/March 2019.
The 14 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: human computer interaction and disinformation, automation and disinformation, media and disinformation.

List of contents

Human Computer Interaction and Disinformation.- Human and Algorithmic Contributions to Misinformation Online -Identifying the Culprit.- Between Overload and Indifference. Detection of Fake Accounts and Social Bots by Community Managers.- Use and Assessment of Sources in Conspiracy Theorists' Communities.-Credibility Development with Knowledge Graphs.- Automated Detection of Nostalgic Text in the Context of Societal Pessimism.- What is Abusive Language? Integrating Different Views on Abusive Language for Machine Learning.- Automation and Disinformation.- Detecting Malicious Social Bots: Story of a Never-Ending Clash.- The Markets of Manipulation: The Trading of Social Bots on Clearnet and Darknet Markets.- Inside the Tool Set of Automation: Free Social Bot Code Revisited.- Analysis of Automation in Account Engagement for Onsetting Twitter Message Cascades.- How Facebook and Google accidentally created a perfect ecosystem for targeted disinformation.- Between Mainstream and Alternative.-Populist Alternative News Media.- Maintaining Journalistic Authority.- State propaganda on Twitter - How Iranian propaganda accounts tried to negatively in uence the discourse on Saudi Arabia.

Product details

• Assisted by: Christian Grimme (Editor), Mik Preuss (Editor), Mike Preuss (Editor), Frank W. Takes (Editor), Frank W Takes et al (Editor), Annie Waldherr (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2020
• EAN: 9783030396268
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3039626-8
• No. of pages: 199
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 13 mm x 237 mm
• Weight: 330 g
• Illustrations: XII, 199 p. 70 illus., 31 illus. in color.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks