One of today's most controversial and consequential issues is whether the global uptake of
digital media is causally related to a decline in democracy. We conducted a systematic …

Does activity on hard-right social media lead to hard-right civil unrest? If so, why? We
created a spatial panel dataset comprising hard-right social media use and incidents of …

Environmental governance occurs through and is shaped by communication. We propose a
typology of public communication, classifying it by directionality (one-way or two-way) and …

At the same time, there is more local information available online, both from local media and
from other sources, as the share of digital outlets expands [60]. Local news television and …

Social media platforms, such as Twitter, are an increasingly important source of information
and are forums for discourse within and between interest groups. Research highlights how …

At the start of the pandemic, it looked like the biggest COVID-related threat to democracy, in
Eastern Europe and elsewhere, was executive aggrandizement. This focus, however, may …

How can democratic values and behavior be induced in new democracies? We designed
and tested three original civic education interventions to answer this question, using Tunisia …

Civic organisations and progressive campaigns regard digital advertising as an essential
method to register to vote low-participation groups, such as ethnic minorities, young voters …

Do social influencers affect election outcomes? Social influencers can reach millions of
people through social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Instagram …

Mass emails are frequently used by advocacy groups to mobilise supporters to lobby
legislators. But how effective are they at inducing constituent‐to‐legislator lobbying when …