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Articles by Nicola Righetti
Mainstreaming and transnationalization of anti-gender ideas through social media: the case of CitizenGO
ABSTRACT Social media platforms can be effective tools for mainstreaming and transnationalization of radical positions. Anti-gender ideas have particularly gained traction transnationally in recent years. Despite extensive research on the anti-gender movement, the specific role of social media remains underexplored. How do anti-gender organizations use social media to strategically mainstream and transnationalize their agenda?
Protest and repression on social media: Pro-Navalny and pro-government mobilization dynamics and coordination patterns on Russian Twitter
Introduction The scholarly discussion on social media’s role in political protests within authoritarian regimes unfolds as a dynamic dialogue between two distinctive perspectives. One underscores the empowering capacity of social media for protest mobilization, including information sharing, coordination during demonstrations, or internationalization of protests (e.g. Bruns et al., 2013; Lotan et al., 2011; Tufekci and Wilson, 2012; Tucker et al., 2016).
At the onset of an infodemic: Geographic and disciplinary boundaries in researching problematic COVID-19 information
Abstract This paper analyzes the literature on problematic COVID-19 information published at the onset of the pandemic in 2020. It explores how scientific research has addressed this issue from a disciplinary, methodological and substantive perspective in different world regions. Three hundred seventy-eight articles were analyzed using content analysis and computational methods, including social network analysis and text mining.
Four years of fake news: A quantitative analysis of the scientific literature
Nicola Righetti University of Vienna Keywords: fake news, misinformation, disinformation, review Abstract Since 2016, “fake news” has been the main buzzword for online misinformation and disinformation. This term has been widely used and discussed by scholars, leading to hundreds of publications in a few years.
It takes a village to manipulate the media: coordinated link sharing behavior during 2018 and 2019 Italian elections
Over the last few years, a proliferation of attempts to define, understand and fight the spread of problematic information in contemporary media ecosystems emerged. Most of these attempts focus on false content and/or bad actors detection. In this paper, we argue for a wider ecological focus.
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Article title: It Takes a Village to Manipulate the Media: Coordinated Link Sharing Behaviour During 2018 and 2019 Italian elections Authors: Fabio Giglietto, Nicola Righetti, Luca Rossi and Giada Marino Journal: Information, Communication & Society DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1739732 The article was originally published with incorrect figures of 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 and the last paragraph in page 9 is revised with a new reference citation.
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