Chair for Digital Technology, Governance and Policy

Hasso Plattner Institute
University of Potsdam
Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3
14482 Potsdam
Germany

Prof. Dr. Gillian Bolsover  
Principle Investigator, Path to Power Project 
Office : H-3.4 
Phone: 0331 5509-3422 
E-Mail: Gillian.Bolsover(at)HPI.de 
Links: Google scholar 

Bolsover, G. (2022). Indian Democracy Under Threat: The BJP’s Online Authoritarian Populism as a Means to Advance an Ethnoreligious Nationalist Agenda in the 2019 General Election. International Journal of Communication, 16(2022), 1940–1968. DOI: 1932–8036/20220005  

Bolsover, G. (2022). Cultivating and Communicating Nationalism: Marketing China's Foreign Policy to its Citizens in the 20th Chinese Communist Party National Congress. Centre for Democratic Politics, University of Leeds. 

Bolsover, G. (2021). Social media, computational propaganda and control in China and beyond. In T. Clack and R. Johnson (Eds.), The World Information War: Campaigning, Cognition and Effect. London: Routledge. 

Bolsover, G. (2020). COVID's impact on the US 2020 election: insights from social media discourse in the early campaign period. Centre for Democratic Engagement, University of Leeds.  

Bolsover, G. (2020). Black Lives Matter discourse on US social media during COVID: polarised positions enacted in a new event. Centre for Democratic Engagement, University of Leeds. 21 Aug, 2020.  

Bolsover, G. (2020). Balancing freedoms, rights and responsibilities during COVID in US: a study of anti-and pro-restriction discourse. Centre for Democratic Engagement, University of Leeds. 4 Aug, 2020.  

Bolsover, G., and Tokitsu Tizon, J. (2020). Social Media and Health Misinformation during the US COVID Crisis. Centre for Democratic Engagement, University of Leeds. 20 July, 2020. 

Goron, C, and Bolsover, G. (2020). Engagement or control? The Impact of the Chinese Environmental Protection Bureaus’ Burgeoning Online Presence in Local Environmental Governance. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 63(1). DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2019.1628716 

Bolsover, G, and Howard, P. N. (2019). Chinese computational propaganda: automation, algorithms and the manipulation of information about Chinese politics on Twitter and Weibo. Information, Communication and Society 22(14). DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1476576 

Bolsover, G., and Howard, P. N. (2019). Computational Propaganda in the USA, Europe and China. In N. Vasu, B. Ang, & S. Jayakumar (Eds.), DRUMS: Distortions, Rumours, Untruths, Misinformation, and Smears (pp. 61–81). Singapore: World Scientific. DOI: /10.1142/11115 

Bolsover, G. (2018). Computational Propaganda In China: An Alternative Model of a Widespread Practice. In P.N. Howard and S. Woolley (Eds.), Computational Propaganda: Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Bolsover, G. (2018). Slacktivist USA and Authoritarian China? Comparing Two Political Public Spheres with a Random Sample of Social Media Users. Policy and Internet 10(4).  DOI: 10.1002/poi3.186 

Bolsover, G, and Howard, P. N. (2017). Computational propaganda and political big data: Moving toward a more critical research agenda. Big Data 5(4). DOI: 10.1089/big.2017.29024.cpr 

Bolsover, G. (2017). Harmonious communitarianism or a rational public sphere:  A content analysis of the differences between comments on news stories on Weibo and Facebook. Asian Journal of Communication 27(2). DOI: 10.1080/01292986.2016.1214743 

Bolsover, G. (2017). Computational propaganda in China: An alternative model of a widespread practice. COMPROP Research Report 2017.4, June 19, 2017.  

Bolsover, G. (2017). Computational propaganda and the networked citizen. Presented at the Association of Internet Researchers Conference, October 2017. 

Bolsover, G. (2017). Commercialisation, representation and political speech on commercial microblogs in the U.S. and China. Presented at the Chinese Internet Research Conference, June 2017. 

Desigaud, C., Howard, P. N., Bradshaw, S., Kollanyi, B. and Bolsover, G. (2017). Junk News and Bots during the French Presidential Election: What Are French Voters Sharing Over Twitter In Round Two?  COMPROP Data Memo 2017.4, 4 May 2017. 

Howard, P. N., Bradshaw, S., Kollanyi, B., Desigaud, C. and Bolsover, G. (2017). Junk news and bots during the French Presidential Election: What are French voters sharing over Twitter? COMPROP Data Memo 2017.3, 21 April 2017.  

Howard, P. N., Bolsover, G., Kollanyi, B., Bradshaw, S. and Neudert, L. M. (2017) Junk news and bots during the U.S. election: What were Michigan voters Sharing over Twitter? COMPROP Data Memo 2017.1, 26 March 2017. 

Blank, G, Bolsover, G & Dubois, E. (2014). A New Privacy Paradox: Young people and privacy on social network sites. University of Oxford, Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre. (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. ID 2479938). Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. Presented at the American Sociological Association Conference, August 2014.  

Bolsover, G., Dutton, W. H., Law, G., and Dutta, S. (2014). China and the US in the New Internet World: A comparative perspective. In M. Graham and W. Dutton (Eds.), Society and the Internet: How Information and Social Networks are Changing our Lives. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199661992.003.0008  

Bolsover, G. (2014). What are appropriate normative frameworks to analyse the political effects of the Internet in China? (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. ID 2981552). Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. Presented at the Chinese Internet Research Conference, June 2014. 

Dutton, W., Law, G., Bolsover, G., & Dutta, S. (2014). The Internet Trust Bubble: Global values, beliefs and practices underpinning the future of free expression, privacy and security online. 

Bolsover, G. (2013). News in China’s new information environment: Dissemination patterns, opinion leaders and news commentary on Weibo (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. ID 2257794). Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. Presented at the Chinese Internet Research Conference, June 2013. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2257794 

Bolsover, G., Dutton, W. H., Law, G., & Dutta, S. (2013). Social foundations of the Internet in China and the New Internet World: A cross-national comparative perspective (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. ID 2276482). Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. Presented at the China and the New Internet World Information and Communication Association Pre-conference, June 2013. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2276482 

Bolsover, G. (2013). Replay, Replace and Reconfigure – Empowered audiences riding the wave of viral videos to make new meanings and speak about their lives [an analysis of Gangnam style parody videos]. (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. ID 3351099). Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network.