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The Trump Campaign Computational Propaganda Challenge for the Indian Parliamentary Elections 2019
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Abstract Digital technology tools like any computerized system have a viral tendency and
what awaits the Indian Elections in 2019 is a Trump style sophisticated digital
computational propaganda. Such tools are emerging as threats to democracies,
especially like India, with a free media and a booming popul... view more
Digital technology tools like any computerized system have a viral tendency and
what awaits the Indian Elections in 2019 is a Trump style sophisticated digital
computational propaganda. Such tools are emerging as threats to democracies,
especially like India, with a free media and a booming population, connecting to
the web through smart hand-held devices, increasingly relying on social media for
its news sources. The Indian landscape for digital privacy is also fertile with vast
amounts of data being pilfered, hacked and legally accumulated. If carefully
designed election propaganda based on fake news and bots is launched on the
eve of the 2019 elections who will protect the pillars of Indian democracy? This
qualitative study paper with a triangulation of two methods examines the role of
computational propaganda in elections and undertakes to find the likelihood of
its replication during the Indian general elections in 2019.... view less
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Interactive, electronic Media
Free Keywords
Indian elections 2019; computational propaganda; social media; data privacy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 79-88
Journal
Media Watch, 9 (2018) 1
ISSN
0976-0911
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0