Authors
Stefan Daume, Petter Bjersér, Victor Galaz
Publication date
2023/12/1
Source
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Volume
65
Pages
101384
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- Research on automated Twitter accounts in sustainability discourses is reviewed.
- The literature on this topic is limited, and the impact of automation is unclear.
- Research on negative social bot impacts outweighs consideration of beneficial ones.
- Available research lacks common datasets and methodological consensus.
- Research exploring behavioral impacts of automated online content is required.
Online social media such as the microblog Twitter are key digital arenas shaping the public discourse on important societal topics. Automated social media accounts, so-called ‘social bots,’have emerged as a controversial phenomenon, proven to both disrupt and support online communications on topics such as political elections and public health. To what extent social bots also impact online conversations on climate change, environmental crises, and sustainability remains unknown however.
We present a …
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S Daume, P Bjersér, V Galaz - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2023