CSH Talk by Hossein Kermani: Bots vs. humans: discursive activism during the pandemic in the Iranian Twittersphere
Complexity Science Hub Vienna Josefstädter Straße 39, ViennaThis paper investigates how automated accounts and human users framed the pandemic in Iran. While there is a growing body of literature on bot activism, our knowledge of how bots intervene in humans' organic discursive practices in authoritarian regimes, particularly during the pandemic, is niche. We based this study on networked framing theory and used…