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Prophets and Loss: How “Soft Facts” on Social Media Influenced the Brexit Campaign and Social Reactions to the Murder of Jo Cox MP 预言与损失：社交媒体上的“软事实”如何影响英国脱欧运动以及社会对乔·考克斯议员谋杀案的反应

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Policy and Internet Pub Date : 2019-05-06 DOI: 10.1002/POI3.203

Diyana Dobreva, Daniel Grinnell, M. Innes

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引用次数: 8

Liable, but Not in Control? Ensuring Meaningful Human Agency in Automated Decision-Making Systems 撒谎，但无法控制？确保自动化决策系统中有意义的人的能动性

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Policy and Internet Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.1002/POI3.198

B. Wagner

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引用次数: 61

Issue Information 问题信息

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Policy and Internet Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.1002/poi3.178

引用次数: 0

Privacy by Infrastructure: The Unresolved Case of the Domain Name System 基于基础设施的隐私：域名系统的未决案件

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Policy and Internet Pub Date : 2019-01-15 DOI: 10.1002/POI3.195

Samantha Bradshaw, L. DeNardis

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引用次数: 12

Do Parliamentary Debates of e-Petitions Enhance Public Engagement With Parliament? An Analysis of Twitter Conversations 议会对电子请愿书的辩论是否加强了公众对议会的参与？Twitter对话分析

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Policy and Internet Pub Date : 2019-01-08 DOI: 10.1002/POI3.194

Molly Asher, Cristina Leston-Bandeira, V. Spaiser

引用次数: 22

Context Matters! Looking Beyond Platform Structure to Understand Citizen Deliberation on Brazil's Portal e‐Democracia 上下文很重要！超越平台结构理解巴西民主门户网站上的公民审议

IF 4.9 1区文学

Policy and Internet Pub Date : 2019-01-07 DOI: 10.1002/POI3.196

Isabele Mitozo, Francisco Paulo Jamil Marques

引用次数: 9

Public Values in the Age of Big Data: A Public Information Perspective 大数据时代的公共价值:公共信息视角