Political Bots: are they manipulating the USA Presidential elections? An interesting project on digital politics and algorithms which is considering how the use of automated scripts, commonly called bots, on social media manipulates and is a form of political propaganda. It is surveying industry insiders as well as building a database of political incidents involving bots. Some of the ongoing research relates to the US presidential elections.
Ballot on the Ballot: outsiders in US political elections
Great new exhibition on the Digital Library of America. It highlights women and black candidates and considers how they changed politics. It includes essays and primary source images such as photographs and prints. It also includes letters and photographs relating to the career of Victoria Woodhull
Finally Predict the next US president using this fun BBC game which introduced the idea of the electoral college. Or create your own forecast with the 270 to win map.
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