Marco T. Bastos

University College Dublin

Belfield

Belfield, Dublin 4 4

Ireland

City St George’s, University of London

Northampton Square

London, EC1V 0HB

United Kingdom

City, University of London

London

United Kingdom

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

33

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Scholarly Papers (33)

1.

Digital Journalism and Tabloid Journalism

Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 24 Jun 2016
Marco T. Bastos and Marco T. Bastos
University College Dublin
Downloads 1,309 (32,368)

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Digital Journalism, Broadsheet, Tabloids, BuzzFeed, Content Curation

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Fact-Checking Misinformation: Eight Notes on Consensus Reality

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 10 Jan 2022
Otavio Vinhas, Marco T. Bastos and Marco T. Bastos
University College Dublin (UCD) and University College Dublin
Downloads 506 (115,957)
Citation 5

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Fact-checking, Disinformation, Trust, Social media, Bias, Uncertainty

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The Brexit Botnet and User-Generated Hyperpartisan News

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 12 Sep 2017
Marco T. Bastos, Marco T. Bastos and Dan Mercea
University College Dublin and City University London
Downloads 317 (197,417)
Citation 9

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Brexit, Twitter, Fake news, Sockpuppets, Retweets cascades, Political bots

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The Public Accountability of Social Platforms: Lessons from a Study on Bots and Trolls in the Brexit Campaign

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 24 Jun 2018
Marco T. Bastos, Marco T. Bastos and Dan Mercea
University College Dublin and City University London
Downloads 207 (302,563)

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Bots, Trolls, Social Platforms, API, Automation, Accountability

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Shares, Pins, and Tweets: News Readership from Daily Papers to Social Media

Journalism Studies, March 2014
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Apr 2015
Marco T. Bastos and Marco T. Bastos
University College Dublin
Downloads 174 (354,482)
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Facebook, Journalism, News Sections, Newspapers, Social Media, Guardian, New York Times, Twitter

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Tents, Tweets, and Events: The Interplay between Ongoing Protests and Social Media

Journal of Communication, 2015
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 08 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 25 May 2024
Marco T. Bastos, Marco T. Bastos, Dan Mercea and Arthur Charpentier
University College Dublin, City University London and National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) - National School for Statistical and Economic Administration (ENSAE)
Downloads 167 (367,343)
Citation 8

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Social Media, Contentious Politics, Granger causality test, Occupy, Indignados, Vinegar Protests

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Birds of a Feather Petition Together? Characterizing E-Petitioning Through the Lens of Platform Data

Information, Communication and Society, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 07 May 2016
Cornelius Puschmann, Marco T. Bastos, Marco T. Bastos and Jan-Hinrik Schmidt
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, University College Dublin and Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research
Downloads 165 (371,225)

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petitioning, political participation online, behavioral data, content analysis

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Tabloid Journalism

The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 19 Jun 2018
Marco T. Bastos and Marco T. Bastos
University College Dublin
Downloads 161 (378,988)

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Five Challenges in Detection and Mitigation of Disinformation on Social Media

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 08 Jul 2021
Marco T. Bastos and Marco T. Bastos
University College Dublin
Downloads 151 (400,114)

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Disinformation, Social Media, Fact checking, Politics of deletion, Deletion policy, Firehose of falsehood

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Serial Activists: Political Twitter Beyond Influentials and the Twittertariat

New Media and Society, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Apr 2015
Marco T. Bastos, Marco T. Bastos and Dan Mercea
University College Dublin and City University London
Downloads 119 (482,744)
Citation 1

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Serial activists, Twitter, social networks, influentials, protest hashtags, civic participation

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Parametrizing Brexit: Mapping Twitter Political Space to Parliamentary Constituencies

Information, Communication, & Society, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 Jan 2018
Marco T. Bastos, Marco T. Bastos and Dan Mercea
University College Dublin and City University London
Downloads 100 (547,824)
Citation 1

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Brexit, Twitter, Public Opinion, Machine Learning, Nationalism, Populism, Referendum

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Being a Serial Transnational Activist

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, DOI: 10.1111/jcc4.12150
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 13 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2016
Dan Mercea, Marco T. Bastos and Marco T. Bastos
City University London and University College Dublin
Downloads 93 (574,041)

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transnational activism, social media, diffusion, celebrity, frame clouding, disengagement

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The Chat-Chamber Effect: Trusting the AI Hallucination

Big Data & Society, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 27 Nov 2024
Christo Jacob, Páraic Kerrigan, Marco T. Bastos and Marco T. Bastos
University College Dublin, University College Dublin and University College Dublin
Downloads 85 (606,332)

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ChatGPT, Large Language Models, Echo Chamber, Filter Bubble, Bias

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This Account Doesn’t Exist: Tweet Decay and the Politics of Deletion in the Brexit Debate

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 27 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 28 Dec 2020
Marco T. Bastos and Marco T. Bastos
University College Dublin
Downloads 76 (645,736)
Citation 1

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'Donald Trump is my President!' The Internet Research Agency Propaganda Machine

Social Media + Society, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 23 May 2019
Marco T. Bastos, Marco T. Bastos and Johan Farkas
University College Dublin and Malmo University
Downloads 75 (650,452)
Citation 2

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Propaganda, Internet Research Agency, Trolls, Disinformation, Twitter

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The Insurrectionist Playbook: Jair Bolsonaro and the National Congress of Brazil

Social Media and Society, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Nov 2023
Marco T. Bastos, Marco T. Bastos and Raquel Recuero
University College Dublin and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Downloads 59 (734,220)
Citation 1

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Insurrection, Brazil, Social platforms, Disinformation, Bolsonaro, Coup d’état

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The IMPED Model: Detecting Low-Quality Information in Social Media

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 27 May 2020 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2020
Marco T. Bastos, Marco T. Bastos, Shawn Walker and Michael Simeone
University College Dublin, Arizona State University and Arizona State University
Downloads 58 (740,297)

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Content Moderation, Diversity Index, Partisanship, Misinformation, Web Archive

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The Geographic Embedding of Online Echo Chambers: Evidence from the Brexit Campaign

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 12 Aug 2020
Marco T. Bastos, Marco T. Bastos, Dan Mercea and Andrea Baronchelli
University College Dublin, City University London and City University London - School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Downloads 57 (746,289)
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Brexit, Echo chambers, Homophily, Filter bubbles, Twitter, Geography

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Spatial Analysis Meets Internet Research

Forthcoming, Second International Handbook of Internet Research
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 25 Jul 2018
Marco T. Bastos and Marco T. Bastos
University College Dublin
Downloads 47 (813,309)

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Spatial analysis, Internet studies, Geoweb, Big data, GIS

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The WEIRD Governance of Fact-Checking and the Politics of Content Moderation

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 Nov 2023
Otavio Vinhas, Marco T. Bastos and Marco T. Bastos
University College Dublin (UCD) and University College Dublin
Downloads 45 (828,027)

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Fact-checking; WEIRD; Content moderation; Meta; Virality

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Core-Periphery or Decentralized? Topological Shifts of Specialized Information on Twitter

Social Networks, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 02 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2017
Marco T. Bastos, Marco T. Bastos, Carlo Piccardi, Michael Levy, Neil McRoberts and Mark Lubell
University College Dublin, Polytechnic University of Milan, University of California, Davis - Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis and University of California, Davis
Downloads 44 (835,666)

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Persistent Activist Communication in Occupy Gezi

Sociology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2017
Dan Mercea, Duygu Karatas, Marco T. Bastos and Marco T. Bastos
City University London, University of Westminster and University College Dublin
Downloads 43 (843,410)

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Activism, Availability, Organisation, Occupy Gezi, Persistence, Twitter

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Local News as Propaganda: Precarization and Media Control in Qinghai News

Forthcoming in Journalism Practice
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 Jun 2023
Jing Zhong, Marco T. Bastos and Marco T. Bastos
University College Dublin (UCD) and University College Dublin
Downloads 38 (884,755)
Citation 1

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Local news, Propaganda, China, Precarization, Qinghai, State media

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Robustness and the Paradox of Bridging Organizations: The Exit Problem in Regional Water Governance Networks in Central America

Society & Natural Resources, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 14 Dec 2017
Jacob Hileman, Marco T. Bastos, Marco T. Bastos and Mark Lubell
Stockholm University, University College Dublin and University of California, Davis
Downloads 37 (893,446)

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bridging organizations, environmental governance, exit problem, international development, network robustness

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Meaningful disinformation: narrative rituals and affective folktales

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 27 Nov 2023
Marco T. Bastos, Marco T. Bastos and Marc Tuters
University College Dublin and Independent
Downloads 35 (911,525)

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Disinformation, Behavioral models, Social platforms, Rituals, Consensus, Reality

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When fact-checking is not WEIRD: Negotiating consensus outside Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) countries

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 30 Nov 2023
Otavio Vinhas, Marco T. Bastos and Marco T. Bastos
University College Dublin (UCD) and University College Dublin
Downloads 30 (959,116)

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Reverse Influence: The Social Production of Disinformation in the 2022 Brazilian General Election

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 Jan 2025
Marco T. Bastos, Marco T. Bastos, Otavio Vinhas, Raquel Recuero and Felipe Soares
University College Dublin, University College Dublin (UCD), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and University of the Arts London
Downloads 25 (1,011,762)

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Disinformation, Brazil, Reverse Influence, Bolsonaro, Fact-checking, Facebook

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Indifferent About Online Traffic: The Posting Strategies of Five News Outlets during Musk's Acquisition of Twitter

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 23 Jul 2024
Mari Vállez, Juan-José Boté-Vericad, Javier Guallar, Marco T. Bastos and Marco T. Bastos
University of Barcelona, Facultat d'Informació i Mitjans Audiovisuals - Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona and University College Dublin
Downloads 25 (1,011,762)

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Legacy news outlets, Twitter, Online traffic, Posting strategies, Musk's acquisition, X platform

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Forty Thousand Fake Twitter Profiles: A Computational Framework for the Visual Analysis of Social Media Propaganda

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 24 Jul 2024
Noel George, Azhar Sham, Thanvi Ajith, Marco T. Bastos and Marco T. Bastos
University College Dublin, University College Dublin, University College Dublin and University College Dublin
Downloads 23 (1,034,473)

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Disinformation, Teachable Machine, DeepFace, TMRC, Machine Learning, Propaganda

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The News Feed is not a Black Box: A Longitudinal Study of Facebook’s Algorithmic Treatment of News

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 14 Feb 2025
Naoise McNally, Marco T. Bastos and Marco T. Bastos
University College Dublin and University College Dublin
Downloads 6 (1,239,284)

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Algorithms, Facebook, News, Guardian, News Feed, Strategic Interventions

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Tabloids

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 03 Feb 2025
Marco T. Bastos and Marco T. Bastos
University College Dublin
Downloads 4 (1,256,840)

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Tabloids, broadsheet, infotainment, clickbait, viral, influencers

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Guy Next Door and Implausibly Attractive Young Women: The Visual Frames of Social Media Propaganda

New Media & Society, Forthcoming
Posted: 24 May 2021 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2021
Marco T. Bastos, Marco T. Bastos, Dan Mercea and Fabio Goveia
University College Dublin, City University London and Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo

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Visual Framing, Disinformation, Propaganda, Internet Research Agency, Twitter

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Visual Identities in Troll Farms: The Twitter Moderation Research Consortium

Number of pages: 36
Marco T. Bastos and Marco T. Bastos
University College Dublin
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Vision AI, Teachable Machine, DeepFace, TMRC, Machine Learning, Propaganda