The Descriptive Model of Social Bot on the Base of American Political Discourse
https://doi.org/10.55648/1998-6920-2024-18-3-3-13
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to create a descriptive model of a social bot that takes into account its potential as a violator of information and psychological security. The study was made on the base of American political discourse. The model is based on the results of a comprehensive analysis of the unmarked text corpus of social bot posts on Twitter. The corpus of texts is a collection of texts of posts in English of social network accounts that were previously identified by researchers as social bot accounts involved in the president election campaign. The study is motivated by the lack of an exhaustive definition of the concept of "social bot". This bot model forms a new approach to the disclosure of the essence of this concept. In this article, a social bot is considered as a violator of the information and psychological security of the user of the Internet mass media. The article was funded by the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation according to the research project No. № 14/23-К.
About the Author
A. O. Loginova
Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alina O. Loginova - Leading specialist of the Information Security Sector of the Department of Digital Development, Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU).
119034, Moscow, Ostozhenka street, 38, build. 1
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Loginova A.O. The Descriptive Model of Social Bot on the Base of American Political Discourse. The Herald of the Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Information Science. 2024;18(3):3-13. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.55648/1998-6920-2024-18-3-3-13
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