@inproceedings{54d5dc6329bc473d9bd2b2aca46b7c45,
title = "Botivist: Calling volunteers to action using online bots",
abstract = "To help activists call new volunteers to action, we present Botivist: A platform that uses Twitter bots to find potential volunteers and request contributions. By leveraging different Twitter accounts, Botivist employs different strategies to encourage participation. We explore how people respond to bots calling them to action using a test case about corruption in Latin America. Our results show that the majority of volunteers (> 80%) who responded to Botivist's calls to action contributed relevant proposals to address the assigned social problem. Different strategies produced differences in the quantity and relevance of contributions. Some strategies that work well offline and face-to-face appeared to hinder people's participation when used by an online bot. We analyze user behavior in response to being approached by bots with an activist purpose. We also provide strong evidence for the value of this type of civic media, and derive design implications.",
keywords = "Activism, Bots, Micro-contributions, Social media, Volunteers",
author = "Saiph Savage and Andr{\'e}s Monroy-Hern{\'a}ndez and Tobias H{\"o}llerer",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 ACM.; 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2016 ; Conference date: 27-02-2016 Through 02-03-2016",
year = "2016",
month = feb,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1145/2818048.2819985",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "813--822",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2016",
}