Do Machines Replicate Humans? Toward a Unified Understanding of Radicalizing Content on the Open Social Web.

ABSTRACT: The advent of the Internet inadvertently augmented the functioning and success of violent extremist organizations. Terrorist organizations like the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) use the Internet to project their message to a global audience. The majority of research and practice on web-based terrorist propaganda uses human coders to classify content, raising serious concerns such as burnout, mental stress, and reliability of the coded data. More recently, technology platforms and researchers have started to examine the online content using automated classification procedures. However, there are questions about the robustness of automated procedures, given insufficient research comparing and contextualizing the difference between human and machine coding. This article compares outp

SUBMITTER: Hall M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10647225 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature