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Social Media Is a Threat for Democracy! A Political Perspective for Analysing and Diminishing Harm

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

What Does Fear Sound Like? Voice Pitch, Cognitive Frames, and Perceptions of Domestic Abuse Victimization

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociolinguists emphasize the context‐dependence of social meanings activated by linguistic variation. I examine this dynamic using the Goffmanian concept of frames, focusing on the intersection of gender and sexuality. More specifically, I explore pitch variation as an index of femininity in the domestic abuse victimization frame.
Matthew Hunt
wiley   +1 more source

Do Intoxicated Offenders Deserve Harsher Sentences? Questioning Veritas in Vino

open access: yesJournal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Criminal courts increasingly treat intoxication as an aggravating rather than a mitigating factor in sentencing. This shift, seen in Australian law and other jurisdictions, raises the prospect of unjust outcomes. We examine this trend through the lens of desert‐based justifications for punishment, setting aside questions of deterrence and ...
Mary Jean Walker, Daniel B. Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

The role of defendant race, expert testimony and interrogation coerciveness on Canadian mock jurors' perceptions of recanted confessions

open access: yesLegal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose In some contexts, US‐based White jurors appear to exhibit a heightened focus on legally relevant information when the defendant is Black as compared to White. The current study tested this ‘watchdog’ effect in the Canadian context by examining mock jurors' decisions using a trial involving a recanted confession with an Indigenous or a ...
Logan Ewanation, Evelyn M. Maeder
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Genocide, Ethnocide and Identicide: Russia's ‘Strategic Imperial Demographic Policy’ of Russifying Ukrainian Children

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following the Russian Federation's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, thousands of Ukrainian children have been forcibly taken from occupied territories and transferred to Russia. On 17 March 2023, the International Criminal Court officially recognized these actions as a war crime.
Ayşegül Aydıngün   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rhetorics of Counternationalism: The Limitations of Digital Anti‐Hindutva in Combating Right‐Wing Extremism

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are online discourses in subissues within counternationalist movements constructed? This study better understands what comprises digital counternationalist dissent against right‐wing nationalism, finding that right‐wing nationalism's success can also be explained through limitations in counternationalist discourse.
Mohammad Amaan Siddiqui
wiley   +1 more source

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