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Over the last five years, widespread concern about the effects of social media on democracy has led to an explosion in research from different disciplines and corners of academia. This book is the first of its kind to take stock of this emerging multi-disciplinary field by synthesizing what we know, identifying what we do not know and obstacles to future research, and charting a course for the future inquiry. Chapters by leading scholars cover major topics - from disinformation to hate speech to political advertising - and situate recent developments in the context of key policy questions. In addition, the book canvasses existing reform proposals in order to address widely perceived threats that social media poses to democracy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Das Forschungsprojekt "Flucht als Sicherheitsproblem" hat die Veränderungen der Kriminalität im Zusammenhang mit der gestiegenen Aufnahme von Geflüchteten im Jahr 2015 untersucht und den Projekttitel dabei in einem umfassenden Sinne verstanden: Zum einen wurde die registrierte Kriminalität von Geflüchteten anhand von polizeilichen Hellfelddaten analysiert. Zum anderen wurde untersucht, inwiefern Geflüchtete selbst Opfer von Straftaten - auf der Fluchtroute und im Aufnahmeland Deutschland - werden. Dabei standen Ursachen, Formen und Auswirkungen der möglichen Opfererfahrungen im Fokus. Ein dritter Forschungsstrang widmete sich der Frage, inwiefern die Kriminalitätsveränderungen und die damit einhergehende öffentliche und mediale Debatte Einfluss auf das subjektive Sicherheitsempfinden in der Aufnahmegesellschaft haben. Die Untersuchung konzentriert sich dabei in allen drei Schwerpunkten auf Nordrhein-Westfalen, auch weil in diesem Bundesland die meisten Asylsuchenden aufgenommen wurden.

Mit der Geschlechtszugehörigkeit ist eine spezifische Vorstellung von körperlicher Leistungsfähigkeit verbunden. Im Sport zeigt sich diese darin, dass eine Trennung in Männer und Frauen als grundlegende Voraussetzung erachtet wird, um fairen Wettbewerb zu ermöglichen. Doch was bedeutet eine solche Trennung für intersexuelle Sportler*innen, die sich schon körperlich der Zweigeschlechterordnung entziehen? Dennis Krämer arbeitet aus soziologischer, medizinischer und sexualwissenschaftlicher Perspektive die existierenden Vorstellungen über Intersexualität als zeitgenössische Körperpolitiken heraus und reflektiert ihre Entstehung unter Berücksichtigung der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse.

« If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reversal but was of a piece with emerging forms of authoritarianism worldwide. In Authoritarian Apprehensions, Lisa Wedeen draws on her decades-long engagement with Syria to offer an erudite and compassionate analysis of this extraordinary rush of events—the revolutionary exhilaration of the initial days of unrest and then the devastating violence that shattered hopes of any quick undoing of dictatorship. Developing a fresh, insightful, and theoretically imaginative approach to both authoritarianism and conflict, Wedeen asks, What led a sizable part of the citizenry to stick by the regime through one atrocity after another? What happens to political judgment in a context of pervasive misinformation? And what might the Syrian example suggest about how authoritarian leaders exploit digital media to create uncertainty, political impasses, and fractures among their citizens? - Drawing on extensive fieldwork and a variety of Syrian artistic practices, Wedeen lays bare the ideological investments that sustain ambivalent attachments to established organizations of power and contribute to the ongoing challenge of pursuing political change. This masterful book is a testament to Wedeen's deep engagement with some of the most troubling concerns of our political present and future. « (Verlagsbeschreibung)

Sicherheit wird nicht selten ex negativo durch eine Beschreibung neuer Risiken und Gefahren bestimmt. Doch gilt es auch, die sich wandelnden Maßnahmen, neuen Technologien und Politiken in den Blick zu nehmen, die eine Gesellschaft wählt, um Sicherheit herzustellen. Unter dem Titel "(Un-)Sicherheiten im Wandel - Gesellschaftliche Dimensionen von Sicherheit" werden folgende Themen der zivilen Sicherheitsforschung erörtert: Radikalisierungsdynamiken, Moderation und Gestaltung von Sicherheitskommunikation, Neue Technologien als Präventions- und Sicherheitsgarant?

Although many observers argue that US-Russia relations are a simple reflection of elites' political and economic preferences in both countries, these preferences tend to arise from pre-existing belief systems that are deeply rooted in the public and accentuated by mass media. In Dark Double, Andrei P. Tsygankov focuses on the driving power of values and media, in addition to political and economic interests, in structuring US-Russia relations. By analyzing mainstream US newspapers and other media sources, Tsygankov identifies five media narratives involving Russia since the Cold War's end and studies them through a framework of three inter-related factors: historic and cultural differences between the two countries, inter-state competition, and polarizing domestic politics. He shows how Americans' negative views toward Russia draw from a deep wellspring of suspicion and are further enhanced by a biased media that regularly exploits such negativity, Russia's centralization of power and anti-American attitudes. Given the intensity of our current impasse with Russia, Dark Double represents an important intervention that forces us to think about the sources of conflict in a new way.

Discourses of Brexit provides a kaleidoscope of insights into how discourse influenced the outcome of the EU referendum and what discourses have sprung up as a result of it. Working with a wide variety of data, from political speeches to Twitter, and a wide range of methods, Discourses of Brexit presents the most thorough examination of the discourses around the British EU referendum and related events. It provides a comprehensive understanding of the discursive treatment of Brexit, while also providing detailed investigations of how Brexit has been negotiated in different contexts.

In the digital age, technology has shrunk the physical world into a "global village," where we all seem to be connected as an online community as information travels to the farthest reaches of the planet with the click of a mouse. Yet while we think of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as open and accessible to all, in reality, these are commercial entities developed primarily by and for the Western world. Considering how new technologies increasingly shape labor, economics, and politics, these tools often reinforce the inequalities of globalization, rarely reflecting the perspectives of those at the bottom of the digital divide. This book asks us to re-consider 'whose global village' we are shaping with the digital technology revolution today. Sharing stories of collaboration with Native Americans in California and New Mexico, revolutionaries in Egypt, communities in rural India, and others across the world, Ramesh Srinivasan urges us to re-imagine what the Internet, mobile phones, or social media platforms may look like when considered from the perspective of diverse cultures. Such collaborations can pave the way for a people-first approach toward designing and working with new technology worldwide. Whose Global Village seeks to inspire professionals, activists, and scholars alike to think about technology in a way that embraces the realities of communities too often relegated to the margins. We can then start to visualize a world where technologies serve diverse communities rather than just the Western consumer

This book maps how Brazil and the network of Portuguese-speaking countries are using digital technologies in new ways to expand opportunities and influence the arts, creative industries, sports, learning, business, and cultural evolution for hundreds of millions of Portuguese-speaking people on five continents.