Do Social Bots Dream of Electric Sheep? A Categorisation of Social Media Bot Accounts

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.04044
• Publication Date: 2017-01-01
• Authors: Stefan Stieglitz; Florian Brachten; Björn Roß; Anna-Katharina Jung
• Keywords: Referendum; Brexit

So-called 'social bots' have garnered a lot of attention lately. Previous research showed that they attempted to influence political events such as the Brexit referendum and US presidential elections. It remains, however, somewhat unclear what exactly can be understood by term bot'. This paper addresses need better understand intentions bots on social media develop shared understanding how 'social' differ from other types bots. We thus describe systematic review publications researched bot accounts media. Based results this literature review, we propose scheme for categorising sites. Our groups two dimensions - Imitation human behaviour Intent.