Automation drives our experience of social media platforms, from timeline feeds to disinformation bots. This book examines social media phenomena, like viral memes, parasocial relationships, and harassment campaigns. This book then explores the ethics of automation on social media platforms by experimenting with computer programs that automate social media actions. This book assume no prior programming experience.
This book is about:
Social Media
What it does, how it works, how people use it, different uses and abuses, etc.
Ethics
Individual behaviors, group behaviors, design and management decisions, etc.
Automation
basic programming skills in Python, create social media bots, get information from social media platforms, etc.
We hope after completing this book you will be informed and engaged as social media user, as a member of a society where social media plays a large role, and potentially as a worker in a social media company.
You can download this book as a pdf here (though not everything will work correctly or be interactive as a pdf). (Also, if anyone knows how to make jupyterbooks make separate pdfs for each chapter, please let Kyle know.)
We are happy to make this book available online for free, but if you find this textbook valuable and want to support our work, please donate to us through Susan’s Ko-Fi account: https://ko-fi.com/drsusannotess.
Social Media, Ethics, and Automation#
Automation drives our experience of social media platforms, from timeline feeds to disinformation bots. This book examines social media phenomena, like viral memes, parasocial relationships, and harassment campaigns. This book then explores the ethics of automation on social media platforms by experimenting with computer programs that automate social media actions. This book assume no prior programming experience.
This book is about:
Social Media
What it does, how it works, how people use it, different uses and abuses, etc.
Ethics
Individual behaviors, group behaviors, design and management decisions, etc.
Automation
basic programming skills in Python, create social media bots, get information from social media platforms, etc.
We hope after completing this book you will be informed and engaged as social media user, as a member of a society where social media plays a large role, and potentially as a worker in a social media company.
Download and Versions#
There are different versions of this book for making bots in different platforms:
Choose Social Media Platform: Reddit | Discord (incomplete) | Bluesky (incomplete)
You can download this book as a pdf here (though not everything will work correctly or be interactive as a pdf). (Also, if anyone knows how to make jupyterbooks make separate pdfs for each chapter, please let Kyle know.)
Support this Project#
We are happy to make this book available online for free, but if you find this textbook valuable and want to support our work, please donate to us through Susan’s Ko-Fi account: https://ko-fi.com/drsusannotess.
Suggested Citation#
Full Table of Contents
Book
Appendix