Britney Spears released a hit memoir. Are bots shaping the conversation?
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In the wake of Britney Spears’ hit memoir, are social media bots changing the conversation? Bridget does a deep dive into how social media bots are changing the landscape of social media discourse. From celebrity disputes to television reviews and political discourse, the threat of bots and inauthentic accounts are shaping how we think and how we talk to each other, whether they’re real or not.
Massive Twitter Bot Farm Is Heaping Praise on Trump and Trashing DeSantis” https://gizmodo.com/twitter-bots-trump-desantis-maga-facebook-1850199161
Is There a Bot Behind That Tweet? https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/is-there-a-bot-behind-that-tweet
Bots on X worse than ever according to analysis of 1m tweets during first Republican primary debate:
Even a few bots can shift public opinion in big ways: https://theconversation.com/even-a-few-bots-can-shift-public-opinion-in-big-ways-104377
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| 0:00.0 | Just a quick heads up, today's episode talks about pregnancy termination. |
| 0:08.4 | There Are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:21.9 | When it comes to the health of our online landscape, I think it's really important to look at how, |
| 0:27.0 | and honestly, if we're able to use our digital communications platforms to communicate with each other about what's going on in the world. |
| 0:34.5 | So in this episode, I want to look at a few recent cultural happenings and how bots |
| 0:39.4 | did or didn't sway those conversations. We'll be covering a lot of ground and digging into a lot of |
| 0:45.3 | research, and we're going to start with Britney Spears. So we have talked about Britney Spears on the |
| 0:51.0 | podcast before, and I just finished the audiobook of Britney Spears' memoir, |
| 0:55.1 | The Woman and Me. Now, even if you're someone who does not read a lot of celebrity memoirs, |
| 1:00.5 | I think this book is still worth a read. Or you could listen to the audiobook narrated by Michelle |
| 1:06.1 | Williams. At first, I was like, oh, I don't need to read this whole thing. I'll just listen to a recap on a |
| 1:12.4 | podcast. So I listened to the podcast Celebrity Memoir Book Club about the memoir, and they |
| 1:17.1 | ended the episode saying, y'all really need to read this book for yourselves. So I did. And they were |
| 1:22.9 | right. Listening to Brittany, in her own words, was really a different experience. The book is a hit. It sold |
| 1:29.9 | 1.1 million copies in its first week alone. It's at the top of the New York Times bestseller list, |
| 1:35.8 | and it is the number two fastest debut of the year, second to Prince Harry's spare. So it is clear |
| 1:42.1 | people have been waiting to hear what Brittany has to say. In the memoir, |
| 1:46.4 | Britney opens up about some of what we already knew and some that we didn't about her upbringing, |
| 1:50.7 | her rise to fame, and the horrifying details of her 13-year-long conservatorship. It's one of those |
| 1:57.4 | memoirs where Britney is pretty gracious in how she reflects on the people in her life who did not treat her well. |
| 2:03.5 | She has a lot of grace and compassion for people who treated her like absolute garbage. |
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