Botivist: Calling Volunteers to Action using Online Bots

作者: Andres Monroy-Hernandez , Tobias Höllerer , Saiph Savage

DOI: 10.1145/2818048.2819985

关键词: CorruptionValue (ethics)Test (assessment)Social psychologySocial issuesRelevance (information retrieval)Internet privacySocial mediaAction (philosophy)Psychology

摘要: To help activists call new volunteers to action, we present Botivist: a platform that uses Twitter bots find potential and request contributions. By leveraging different accounts, Botivist employs strategies encourage participation. We explore how people respond calling them action using test case about corruption in Latin America. Our results show the majority of (80\%) who responded Botivist's calls contributed relevant proposals address assigned social problem. Different produced differences quantity relevance Some work well offline face-to-face appeared hinder people's participation when used by an online bot. analyze user behavior response being approached with activist purpose. also provide strong evidence for value this type civic media, derive design implications.

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