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Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News
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Hate Speech, Hate Speech in Social Media
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Social Media in Political Communication
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Bias in News Media
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Political Culture
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Politics and Media
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Conflict Reporting, Armed Conflict Reporting
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Extremist & Terrorist Digital / Social Media Presence
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Extremist & Terrorist Communication Strategies and Media
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Filter Bubbles & Echo Chambers
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Twitter & Microblogs
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Objectivity & Veracity of Reporting
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Journalism
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Right-Wing Extremism
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Political Communication
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Public Spheres
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News Consumption & Information Sources of Media Users
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Trust in the Media, Credibility of Media
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Independent & Oppositional Media in Authoritarian Regimes
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Surveillance, Surveillance Technologies, Spyware
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Street Papers
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Participatory Communication
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Conflict-Sensitive Digital Technology Use & Social Media in Prevention & Transformation
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Conflicts & Wars: Roles of Digital Technologies & Conflict Narratives in Social Media
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Enemy Images
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Extremist Recruitment through Media
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Internet / ICTs and Conflicts
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Digital Platforms & Intermediaries
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Digital Platform & Intermediaries Regulation
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Political Blogging
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Social Media
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Racism in Social Media & Digital Communication
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Sports Reporting
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Climate Change Communication, Climate Journalism
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Female Journalists & Media Workers
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Decolonisation & Independence (General)
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Ethnicity in Communication
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Journalists: Professional Identity & Values
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Local Journalism
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Islam: Media Representation & Reporting
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Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relations
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Media Landscapes, Media Systems, Media Situation in General
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Post-Socialist Media Systems & Landscapes
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Migration & Refugees Reporting & (Social) Media Representation
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Anticommunism
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Election Campaigns: Social Media
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Framing
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Influence of Media on Politics
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Media Capture, Vested Political & Other Interests in the Media
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Indignation, Outrage
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Islamism
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Ethnocentrism
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Unpacking Affective Polarization in Afghanistan: Ethnic Politics, Elite Competition, and Online Divisive Content
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2024), 25 pp.
"Affective polarization has been a persistent feature of Afghanistan’s society and politics in the past decades. However, with the instantaneous collapse of the republic’s government and the return of the Taliban, the country has witnessed heightened affective polarization along ethnic and ideol
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Destructive polarization in digital communication contexts: A critical review and conceptual framework
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 22 pp.
"While the digital turn in communication research offers novel opportunities to study polarization at scale, it also adds complexity to a challenging concept. Ambiguities surrounding the conceptual understanding of polarization in different fields lead to problems in advancing the research in the di
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El rol del periodismo en contextos de polarización en tres países de la región: Ecuador, Argentina y Perú
Lima: Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL);Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung (2023), 21 pp.
A Media Repertoires Approach to Selective Exposure: News Consumption and Political Polarization in Eastern Europe
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 28, issue 4 (2023), pp. 884-908
"In recent years, links between selective news exposure and political polarisation have attracted considerable attention among communication scholars. However, while the existence of selective exposure has been documented in both offline and online environments, the evidence of its extent and its im
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Reactions to China-linked Fake News: Experimental Evidence from Taiwan
China Quarterly, issue 249 (2022), pp. 21-46
"China is accused of conducting disinformation campaigns on Taiwan's social media. Existing studies on foreign interventions in democratic societies predict that such disinformation campaigns should lead to increasing partisan polarization within Taiwan. We argue that a backlash effect, making Taiwa
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Understanding Digital Conflict Drivers
In: Fundamental Challenges to Global Peace and Security
H. Mahmoudi et al. (eds.)
Cham: Springer (2022), pp. 169-200
"This chapter explores digital drivers of conflict. We examine how technologies are affecting conflict dynamics and what peacebuilders can do to mitigate these effects. We argue that because digital technologies are fundamentally altering the human experience, they are by extension fundamentally alt
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Hate Speech and Polarization in Participatory Society
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xxv, 252 pp.
"Delving into the meanings, implications, contexts and effects of extreme speech and gated communities in the media landscape, the chapters analyse misleading metaphors and rhetoric via focused case studies to understand how we can overcome the risks and threats stemming from the past decade's defin
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Echo Chambers, Filter Bubbles, and Polarisation: A Literature Review
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 42 pp.
"This literature review examines, specifically, social science work presenting evidence concerning the existence, causes, and effect of online echo chambers and consider what related research can tell about scientific discussions online and how they might shape public understanding of science and th
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Die Öffentlichkeit und ihre Feinde
Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta (2021), 304 pp.
"Die Öffentlichkeit ist der zentrale Wert unserer Demokratie. Nur wenn sich freie Meinungen ohne Angst begegnen, können sie das verhandeln, was alle angeht. Ohne eine funktionierende Öffentlichkeit kann niemand seine Interessen formulieren oder seine Meinung bilden. Doch die spätmoderne Öffentl
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Polarized Media – Polarized Audience
Ljubljana: South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) (2021), 30 pp.
"A significant number of the surveyed citizens consider the media in Serbia under the control of political groups at both ends of the spectrum. At the same time, many of the surveyed citizens think that the media is free to collect and publish information on all the relevant issues. These findings r
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There Can be Only One Truth: Ideological Segregation and Online News Communities in Ukraine
Global Media and Communication, volume 17, issue 2 (2021), pp. 167-187
"The paper examines ideological segregation among Ukrainian users in online environments, using as a case study partisan news communities on Vkontakte, the largest online platform in post-communist states. Its findings suggest that despite their insignificant numbers, partisan news communities attra
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The Ethnification of the Ethiopian Media
Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University;Fojo Media Institute;International Media Support (IMS) (2021), 59 pp.
"[...] The press situation in the country is deeply disconcerting. The reason for this is that the media landscape is as polarized as never before, and that parts of the media are being blamed for playing a pivotal role in the turbulence which have erupted in various parts of the country since 2019.
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The role of (social) media in political polarization: A systematic review
Annals of the International Communication Association, volume 45, issue 3 (2021), pp. 188-206
"Rising political polarization is, in part, attributed to the fragmentation of news media and the spread of misinformation on social media. Previous reviews have yet to assess the full breadth of research on media and polarization. We systematically examine 94 articles (121 studies) that assess the
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Die Kunst des Miteinander-Redens: Über den Dialog in Gesellschaft und Politik
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 222 pp.
"Entgrenzt, entfesselt, entgleist? Im digitalen Zeitalter ist Kommunikation prinzipiell schrankenlos, die Anlässe für Debatten sind unübersehbar – und die Art und Weise, wie in der (Netz)öffentlichkeit weniger mit- als vor allem übereinander gesprochen wird, oftmals weit jenseits überkommene
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Understanding Viral Communism: A Thematic Analysis of Twitter During Brazil’s 2018 Elections
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 15, issue 1 (2020), pp. 19-36
"This research performs a thematic analysis on tweets published during Brazil’s 2018 elections that mentioned communism. The idea was to identify the linkages to other underlying themes that emerged during what we saw as the Twitter ‘virality of communism’ and interpret them considering the ba
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Social Media and Polarization in the 'New Malaysia'
Singapore: ISEAS (2020), 9 pp.
"Malaysia’s Pakatan Harapan government fell rapidly in late February 2020 as a result of coalition infighting and power struggles among the political elite. A major factor in the government’s sudden collapse was rising ethnoreligious tension between Muslim-Malay nationalists in the opposition an
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Polarisation and the Use of Technology in Political Campaigns and Communication
European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) (2019), 55 pp.
Reporting on the Evacuation of Kefraya and Fu’aa: Constructive Journalism Frames in the Coverage of Emerging Syrian Media
Free Press Unlimited (2019), 15 pp.
"This study presents a snapshot of the framing used in reporting on Syria. To ensure a diverse representation, the sample includes a selection of domestic (Syrian) and pan-Arab media organisations, whose alleged preferences towards the dominant parties in the Syrian conflict are mixed. The findings
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Polarisation and the News Media in Europe
European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) (2019), 49 pp.
"Across Europe there is as yet little evidence to support the idea that increased exposure to news featuring like-minded or opposing views leads to the widespread polarisation of attitudes. Although some studies have found that both can strengthen the attitudes of a minority who already hold strong
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