In light of recent US foreign policy shifts, Dr. Trevor Rubenzer asks 'how are ethnic identity groups using social media platforms to mobilize and socialize members'?
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Andrés Scherman, Arturo Arriagada and Sebastián Valenzuela examine the impact of social media on student demonstrations and environmental protests in Chile during 2011, a year marked by civil unrest and citizen mobilization.
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The media should be studied not only as a tool of political or commercial groups, but also as a reflection of national values, myths, and stereotypes. Andrei P. Tsygankov considers perceptions of Russia as a neo-Soviet autocracy.
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Michael Barr looks at Politics’ special section on the use and impact of web technologies and highlights key issues in the debate over the mutually constitutive relation between social media and politics
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In 2017, the Czech Pirate Party got nearly 11% of votes during the elections to the Chamber of Deputies, thus becoming the third strongest party in the country. As a result of these elections, the Czech Pirate Party became one of the most successful pirate parties in Europe. Now, a few months before the next […]
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Whether digital technologies could make the legislative process more democratic is a question that deserves attention. While commercial social media platform dynamics increasingly challenge the quality of public debate, when it comes to enacting laws – before the COVID19 crisis – parliaments worldwide continued to rely almost exclusively on traditional face-to-face interactions for law-making. In […]
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With the Brexit political drama and the Trump presidency, analysts and journalists alike have accounted for a transformation of the common sense and the dealignment of the political landscape by focusing on the use of language, questioning the limits of acceptability and the effectiveness of rhetoric. In parallel to this shifting political reality, rhetorical analysis […]
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For many, Donald Trump has pursued a ‘presidency by Twitter’, using the social media platform to set out his views and policy positions on a variety of issues. Jonny Hall looks at how Trump’s Twitter rhetoric has affected US overseas counterterrorism campaigns. He finds that Trump’s words – including his pivot from talking about terrorists […]
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In 2016, Donald Trump unexpectedly won the White House following an anti-elite populist election campaign which emphasised an exceptionalist and nativist view of America’s place in the world. Reviewing the president’s tweets and speeches in the lead up to the 2018 midterm elections, Corina Lacatus finds that Trump’s far-right populist rhetoric now links closely with […]
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In an age of globalisation, increasing inequality, emerging power of autocratic states and their rising economic dominance, the world has experienced a sharp escalation of new forms of political ideologies and representation reflecting variably on people’s political participation. While existing autocracies continue posing challenges to their citizens’ opportunities to enact political change, scholars have recently […]
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