Hi everyone, special issue on political bots, with one of the first scholarly essays on Microsoft Tay, several essays on ethics of bot use and research, and several CITAMS authors featured. Best, Phil Dr. Philip N. Howard Professor, Oxford University PGP Key: 81E0B647<https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=philip.howard%40oii.ox.ac.uk&op=index> www.philhoward.org<http://www.philhoward.org/> @pnhoward<http://www.twitter.com/pnhoward> Special Section on Automation, Algorithms, and Politics http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/issue/view/12 CONTENTS Political Communication, Computational Propaganda, and Autonomous Agents - Introduction Samuel C. Woolley, Philip N. Howard http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6298 Keeping Ottawa Honest-One Tweet at a Time? Politicians, Journalists, Wikipedians and Their Twitter Bots Heather Ford, Elizabeth Dubois, Cornelius Puschmann http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6183 Talking to Bots: Symbiotic Agency and the Case of Tay Gina Neff, Peter Nagy http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6277 Where Do Bots Come From? An Analysis of Bot Codes Shared on GitHub Bence Kollanyi http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6136 Bots and Political Influence: A Sociotechnical Investigation of Social Network Capital Dhiraj Murthy, Alison B. Powell, Ramine Tinati, Nick Anstead, Leslie Carr, Susan J. Halford, Mark Weal http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6271 When the Algorithm Itself is a Racist: Diagnosing Ethical Harm in the Basic Components of Software Christian Sandvig, Kevin Hamilton, Karrie Karahalios, Cedric Langbort http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6182 Auditing for Transparency in Content Personalization Systems Brent Mittelstadt http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6267 Growing Bot Security: An Ecological View of Bot Agency Douglas Guilbeault http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6135 When Bots Tweet: Toward a Normative Framework for Bots on Social Networking Sites (Feature) Nathalie Maréchal http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6180 Automation, Big Data and Politics: A Research Review Samantha Shorey, Philip N. Howard http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6233