The world of today presents a duality of phenomenal progress and persistent ills. Amid such
existential contradictions, public deliberation forms one of the central pillars of a functional …

The 2016 United States presidential election was marked by the abuse of targeted
advertising on Facebook. Concerned with the risk of the same kind of abuse to happen in …

The spread of online misinformation on social media is increasingly perceived as a problem
for societal cohesion and democracy. The role of political leaders in this process has …

Democracies across the globe are shaken by a new class of populist right‐wing politicians.
A defining element of right‐wing populism is a preference for antagonistic rhetoric to …

This essay examines the role of disinformation in the Indian general election of 2019. The
findings are presented against the background of previous work on the role of digital media …

This study uses the Narrative Policy Framework to examine President Trump's tweets about
immigration policy from 2011 to 2020. Based on a content analysis of 1733 tweets, I show …

In der politischen Kommunikation zeigen sich markante Veränderungen: Sie wird digitaler,
effizienter, pluraler, individueller, globaler, dynamischer und hybrider–vorangetrieben durch …

Understanding ideological conflict has been a topic of interest in CSCW, for example in
Value Sensitive Design research. More specifically, understanding ideological conflict is …

In this study, we investigate the role of the US online media ecosystem in Donald Trump's
rise and consolidation to power (2013-2019). We analyze over 54 million articles from online …

Recent evidence shows that US politicians' conception of honesty has undergone a
bifurcation, with authentic but evidence-free “belief-speaking” becoming more prominent …