An article co-authored by Sarah Eskens, from the Institute of Information Law about the implications of automated news recommmendation for the democratic role of digital media, user rights and public information policy.

A transdisciplinary project from the Oxford Internet Institute investigating the relationships between algorithms, automation and politics.

A research project by Servus.at about computational propaganda and the role social bots play in modern politics.

Eric Gallagher delves into the world social bots that automate hate-mongering on Twitter, in so-called megaphoning systems.

An investigative journalistic series on algorithmic injustice and the computational biases relating to race.

"A protest bot is a bot so specific you can’t mistake it for bullshit". Mark Sample's call for the creation of bots that are "topical, data-based, cumulative, and oppositional”.

Glaciologist occasional bot maker Martin O'Leary's practical advice on ethics of making bots.

Using an ecological approach Douglas Guilbeault looks at how social media propels algorithms into agency and the political problems this reveals, inviting a  hybrid ethics, wherein humans and bots act together to solve problems in bot security and Internet ethics more broadlly. International Journal of Communication10 (2016).

The famous Critical Engineering Manifesto outlines a fundamental critical (creative) ethics towards the practice of engineering.  It also underpins the concepts of Julian Olivers' automatons.

Matteo Pasquinelli et al look into the cognitive, political, and technological composition of definitions of error, abnormality, trauma, and catastrophe in computing.

In Programmed Visions Wendy Chun explores cultural notions of software, memory, visibility, logic and metaphor in new media and algorithmic culture.

In The Stack Benjamin Bratton investigates how the different genres of computing, such as smart grids, cloud platforms, mobile apps, and the Internet of Things, form part of a new accidental techno-political megastructure, which can be understood as organised in the form of a stack.

A collection of academic texts about the role bots and algorithms play in the social lives of web users, and the critical questions surrounding them.

 Bot-maker Tully Hansen interviews Twitter bot @NaiveQuestions about twitter bots

Wired Magazine’s Matt Simons explores the use and deployment of ‘benevolent’ bots to combat ‘malevolent’ bots online.

A Motherboard article on the roles of botds in the public domain, and the complex relations between bot-agency and (semi-)auotonomy and and (design) ethics.

BotWatch’s Vivian Sming writes about the anthropomorphism of bots and how this relates to contemporary gender politics.

R. Stuart Geiger from UC-Berkeley School of Information’s paper on the use of ‘bespoke code’ in Wikipedia, with a focus on bots, and how it relates to the discussion of regulating software systems through code. Information, Communication, and Society (2014)

Algopop is a Tumblr blog where Matthew Plummer Fernandez documents the perfomance of algorithms in popular culture and everyday life.

Great repository of academic texts relating to critical algorithm studies.

Online publication with multidisciplinary critical discussions about bots, which includes articles, essays, and even bots of their own.