The final module, 5.1, will introduce you to the presence and purpose of bots online. Bots can impact your data, and are thus important to understand as you move forward with your research. Before beginning this module, read the following articles:
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- Holmes, Steve and Rachael Graham Lussos. “Cultivating Metanoia in Twitter Publics: Analyzing and Producing Bots of Protest in the #GamerGate Controversy. Computers and Composition 48 (2018): 118-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2018.03.010
- Sherratt, Tim. “Unremembering the Forgotten.” Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, 2019. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-f2acf72c-a469-49d8-be35-67f9ac1e3a60/section/be608100-95b6-4e48-bfd5-a82a588da8f1
- Veale, Tony and Mike Cook. Twitterbots: Making Machines that Make Meaning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018.
After reading the above articles, walk through the Bot Creation assignment. You’ll publish your bot on Twitter and submit the link to earn credit on this assignment.
For an added challenge, you may add images and procedurally-generated text to your bot using the following instructions.
