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Social Media Is a Threat for Democracy! A Political Perspective for Analysing and Diminishing Harm
Abstract Social media platforms, once hailed as potential champions of dialogue, have evolved into commodified spaces in which their business models incentivize hate speech, misinformation, polarization, and the political fragmentation of society, benefiting corporate and political elites while eroding democracy.
Itziar Castelló +3 more
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Where Are the Sore Losers? Competitive Authoritarianism, Incumbent Defeat, and Electoral Trust in Zambia's 2021 Election. [PDF]
Kerr N, Krönke M, Wahman M.
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From Platform Design to Attention Governance: Rethinking Social Media Externalities
Abstract Social media platforms have become central infrastructures through which information is produced, distributed, and contested in contemporary societies, with growing consequences for organizations, social interactions, and democracy. Yet, management and organization scholars tend to treat social media platforms as contexts rather than focal ...
Mirko Benischke, Corinne Post
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Perceptions of inequality and loneliness as drivers of social unraveling: Evidence from South Korea. [PDF]
Lee Y, Han S.
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Editorial: Non-Western democracies–theories, conceptual analyses, case studies
Oliver Fernando Hidalgo +1 more
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Russia's Wartime Economy: Measuring Regional Inequalities From Outer Space
ABSTRACT We study Russia's February 2022 full‐scale invasion of Ukraine as a natural experiment to determine how sudden disruptions to international market access reshape sub‐national economic inequalities. Using remotely‐sensed nighttime lights as a proxy for economic activity, we estimate the economic effects of the war at the national and regional ...
Irakli Barbakadze +3 more
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The distribution of power and inclusiveness across deep time. [PDF]
Feinman GM +12 more
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The Social Contract and Collective Action: Grievances, Cleavages, and Protests in the Middle East
ABSTRACT How do grievances turn into collective action? This article examines how citizens' expectations in social contracts lead them to embark on street protests. It draws on original, nationally representative telephone surveys in Tunisia and Lebanon and unpacks popular preferences about the states' obligations to deliver social service provision ...
Markus Loewe, Holger Albrecht
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