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George, N., Sham, A., Ajith, T. & Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078view all authors (2024). Forty Thousand Fake Twitter Profiles: A Computational Framework for the Visual Analysis of Social Media Propaganda. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4899259

Vállez, M., Boté-Vericad, J-J., Guallar, J. & Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078view all authors (2024). Indifferent About Online Traffic: The Posting Strategies of Five News Outlets during Musk's Acquisition of Twitter. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4897367

Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078 & Recuero, R. (2023). The Insurrectionist Playbook: Jair Bolsonaro and the National Congress of Brazil. Social Media + Society, 9(4), article number 2056305123. doi: 10.1177/20563051231211881

Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078 & Tuters, M. (2023). Meaningful disinformation: narrative rituals and affective folktales. Big Data & Society, 10(2), article number 2053951723. doi: 10.1177/20539517231215361

Vinhas, O. & Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078 (2023). When fact-checking is not WEIRD: Negotiating consensus outside Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) countries. Harvard International Journal of Press Politics, 30(1), pp. 256-276. doi: 10.1177/19401612231221801

Vinhas, O. & Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078 (2023). The WEIRD Governance of Fact-Checking and the Politics of Content Moderation. New Media and Society, doi: 10.1177/14614448231213942

Zhong, J. & Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078 (2023). Local News as Propaganda: Precarization and Media Control in Qinghai News. Journalism Practice, pp. 1-18. doi: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2240760

Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078 (2022). Editorial: Five challenges in detection and mitigation of disinformation on social media. Online Information Review, 46(3), pp. 413-421. doi: 10.1108/oir-08-2021-563

Vinhas, O. & Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078 (2022). Fact-Checking Misinformation: Eight Notes on Consensus Reality. Journalism Studies, 23(4), pp. 448-468. doi: 10.1080/1461670x.2022.2031259

Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078, Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404 & Goveia, F. (2021). Guy Next Door and Implausibly Attractive Young Women: The Visual Frames of Social Media Propaganda. New Media and Society, 25(8), pp. 2014-2033. doi: 10.1177/14614448211026580

Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078 (2021). This Account Doesn’t Exist: Tweet Decay and the Politics of Deletion in the Brexit Debate. American Behavioral Scientist, 65(5), pp. 757-773. doi: 10.1177/0002764221989772

Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078 (2021). This Account Doesn’t Exist: Tweet Decay and the Politics of Deletion in the Brexit Debate. American Behavioral Scientist, 65(5), pp. 757-773. doi: 10.1177/0002764221989772

Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078 (2021). From Global Village to Identity Tribes: Context Collapse and the Darkest Timeline. Media and Communication, 9(3), pp. 50-58. doi: 10.17645/mac.v9i3.3930

Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078, Walker, S. & Simeone, M. (2021). The IMPED Model of Information Quality. American Behavioral Scientist, 65(6), pp. 863-883. doi: 10.1177/0002764221989776

Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078 & Farkas, J. (2019). "Donald Trump is my President!" The Internet Research Agency Propaganda Machine. Social Media and Society, 5(3), pp. 1-13. doi: 10.1177/2056305119865466

Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078 (2019). Tabloid Journalism. In: Vos, T. P., Hanusch, F., Geertsema-Sligh, M. , Sehl, A. & Dimitrakopoulou, D.view all authors (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies. . Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley.

Bastos, M. T. & Mercea, D. (2019). The Brexit Botnet and User-Generated Hyperpartisan News. Social Science Computer Review, 37(1), pp. 38-54. doi: 10.1177/0894439317734157

Walker, S., Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404 & Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078 (2019). The Disinformation Landscape and the Lockdown of Social Platforms. Information, Communication and Society, 22(11), pp. 1531-1543. doi: 10.1080/1369118x.2019.1648536

Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078, Mercea, D. ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-2404 & Baronchelli, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-0255-0829 (2018). The Geographic Embedding of Online Echo Chambers: Evidence from the Brexit Campaign. PLoS ONE, 13(11), article number e0206841. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206841

Mercea, D., Karatas, D. & Bastos, M. T. (2018). Persistent Activist Communication in Occupy Gezi. Sociology, 52(5), pp. 915-933. doi: 10.1177/0038038517695061

Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078 & Mercea, D. (2018). The Public Accountability of Social Platforms: Lessons from a Study on Bots and Trolls in the Brexit Campaign. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 376(2128), article number 20180003. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2018.0003

Bastos, M. T. & Mercea, D. (2018). Parametrizing Brexit: Mapping Twitter Political Space to Parliamentary Constituencies. Information, Communication and Society, 21(7), pp. 921-939. doi: 10.1080/1369118x.2018.1433224

Hileman, J., Bastos, M. T. & Lubell, M. (2018). Robustness and the Paradox of Bridging Organizations: The Exit Problem in Regional Water Governance Networks in Central America. Society and Natural Resources, 31(6), pp. 683-697. doi: 10.1080/08941920.2017.1423436

Bastos, M. T., Piccardi, C., Levy, M. , McRoberts, N. & Lubell, M.view all authors (2018). Core-periphery or decentralized? Topological shifts of specialized information on Twitter. Social Networks, 52, pp. 282-293. doi: 10.1016/j.socnet.2017.09.006

Farkas, J. & Bastos, M. T. ORCID: 0000-0003-0480-1078 (2018). IRA Propaganda on Twitter: Stoking Antagonism and Tweeting Local News. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media & Society, pp. 281-285. doi: 10.1145/3217804.3217929

Puschmann, C., Bastos, M. T. & Schmidt, J-H. (2017). Birds of a feather petition together? Characterizing e-petitioning through the lens of platform data. Information, Communication & Society, 20(2), pp. 203-220. doi: 10.1080/1369118x.2016.1162828

Bastos, M. T. & Mercea, D. (2016). Serial Activists: Political Twitter Beyond Influentials and the Twittertariat. New Media and Society, 18(10), pp. 2359-2378. doi: 10.1177/1461444815584764

Bastos, M. T. (2016). Digital Journalism and Tabloid Journalism. In: Franklin, B. & Eldridge, S. (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies. . Routledge.

Bastos, M. T., Zago, G. & Recuero, R. (2016). A endogamia da Comunicação: redes de colaboração na CSAI. Revista FAMECOS: mídia, cultura e tecnologia, 23(2), article number 21459. doi: 10.15448/1980-3729.2016.2.21459

Mercea, D. & Bastos, M. T. (2016). Being a Serial Transnational Activist. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 21(2), pp. 140-155. doi: 10.1111/jcc4.12150

Da Silva Zago, G., Da Cunha Recuero, R. & Bastos, M. T. (2015). Quem Retuita Quem? Papéis de ativistas, celebridades e imprensa durante os #protestosbr no Twitter. Observatorio, 9(3), pp. 67-83. doi: 10.7458/obs932015800

Recuero, R., Zago, G., Bastos, M. T. & Araujo, R.view all authors (2015). Hashtags Functions in the Protests Across Brazil. SAGE Open, 5(2), pp. 1-14. doi: 10.1177/2158244015586000

Bastos, M. T., Mercea, D. & Charpentier, A. (2015). Tents, tweets, and events: The interplay between ongoing protests and social media. Journal of Communication, 65(2), pp. 320-350. doi: 10.1111/jcom.12145

Bastos, M. T. (2015). Shares, Pins, and Tweets: News readership from daily papers to social media. Journalism Studies, 16(3), pp. 305-325. doi: 10.1080/1461670x.2014.891857

Puschmann, C. & Bastos, M. T. (2015). How Digital Are the Digital Humanities? An Analysis of Two Scholarly Blogging Platforms. PLoS One, 10(2), article number e0115035. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115035

Bastos, M. T. (2015). Outcompeting Traditional Peers? Scholarly Social Networks and Academic Output. 2015 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2015-March, pp. 2043-2052. doi: 10.1109/hicss.2015.244

Recuero, R., Bastos, M. T. & Zago, G. (2014). Narrative and violence: the Brazilian Autumn coverage on Twitter. Matrizes, 8(2), doi: 10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v8i2p191-217

Bastos, M. T., Recuero, R. & Zago, G. (2014). Taking tweets to the streets: A spatial analysis of the Vinegar Protests in Brazil. First Monday, 19(3), doi: 10.5210/fm.v19i3.5227

Recuero, R., Zago, G. & Bastos, M. T. (2014). O discurso dos #ProtestosBR: análise de conteúdo do Twitter. Galáxia (São Paulo), 14(28), pp. 199-216. doi: 10.1590/1982-25542014217911

Bastos, M. T. (2013). A cultural form for the technological society. MATRIZes, 7(1), pp. 183-195. doi: 10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v7i1p193-195

Bastos, M. T. & Zago, G. (2013). Tweeting News Articles Readership and News Sections in Europe and the Americas. SAGE Open, 3(3), pp. 1-18. doi: 10.1177/2158244013502496

Bastos, M. T., Travitzki, R. & Puschmann, C. (2012). What Sticks with Whom? Twitter Follower-Followee Networks and News Classification. In: ICWSM'12 International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. The Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 12), 4 Jun 2012, Dublin, Ireland.

Bastos, M. T., Mercea, D. & Baronchelli, A. The Spatial Dimension of Online Echo Chambers.