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The social implications of manipulation via social media : the Liberal West vs. Autocratic China
| datacite.subject.fos | Ciências Sociais::Ciências Políticas | pt_PT |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Alves, André Azevedo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Leiras, Andrea Therese | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-05T08:38:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-11-05T08:38:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-04-15 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2020 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The intent of social media is to allow one to build a virtual world to augment one’s reality, through the construction of connections without borders. In building such a world, one can lose themselves in the limitless possibilities of community, and not realize that their digital habits are being tracked for the purposes of adapting sociopolitical messaging to achieve premeditated ends. Currently, both liberal democracies and autocracies are guilty are utilizing of algorithms, psychological profiling, and propaganda inundation tactics, to influence political actions in their citizens, albeit with differing scopes and intents. This work seeks to answer the question of how such regimes differ in their scope and methodologies in doing so, and what outcomes they hope to achieve. In order to do so, I will: analyze what encompasses modern liberal democracies and autocracies by definition; provide an operational framework for political manipulation and political misinformation, juxtaposed by traditional propaganda inundation tactics; elaborate upon how totalitarian regimes and liberal democracies have rallied around telecommunications technologies for political ends in times of conflict, and contrast these realities with the advent of social media in achieving strategic political decisions today. As a result, I wish to highlight that regimes worldwide are not acting sufficiently to protect the privacy of their citizens or the integrity of the digital commons, and as a result, there is little variance in the level of intrusion seen between political manipulators via social media, in liberal democracies and autocracies. | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.tid | 202512347 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/31264 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.title | The social implications of manipulation via social media : the Liberal West vs. Autocratic China | pt_PT |
| dc.type | master thesis | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | masterThesis | pt_PT |
| thesis.degree.name | Mestrado em Governação, Liderança e Estudos sobre a Democracia | pt_PT |
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