Abstract This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs). Yet, despite giving everyone a voice and the ability to organize across borders, social media could over‐concentrate power if, in ...
J.P. Vergne
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Comprehensive security, disinformation, and COVID-19: An analysis of the impacts of mis- and disinformation and populist narratives during the pandemic. [PDF]
Bilal A +8 more
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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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Abstract Despite growing recognition that countries around the world must transition to a low‐carbon economy, global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. One way that decarbonization has been obstructed, we argue, is by fossil fuel firms intentionally conflating their agenda with ‘the people’, evoking notions of national identity, security and ...
Daniel Nyberg +3 more
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Anti-intellectualism amid the COVID-19 pandemic: The discursive elements and sources of anti-Fauci tweets. [PDF]
Chen Y +5 more
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Populism and health. An evaluation of the effects of right-wing populism on the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. [PDF]
Fernandes GAAL +2 more
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Religious Populism: A Paradigmatic Mode of Address of the Hybrid Media Environment? [PDF]
Katja Valaskivi, Johanna Sumiala
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Crowding Out the Market: State Religious Policy and Social Capital Among Religious Adherents
ABSTRACT How do governments’ policies toward religion impact the relationship between citizens and civil society? A large body of literature examines the effect of social capital on democratic governance. Studies of State Religious Policy, or SRP, however, have shown complex and potentially contradictory effects on different types of social capital ...
Brendan Szendrő
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Regulated religion, fading belief: how Indonesians' religiosity has quietly changed, 2000-2020. [PDF]
Wardana A.
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