Social Media

Twitter as a Platform to Reflect Eurosceptic Views in Turkey

Çiğdem Üstün • Mar 5 2017 • Articles

The long duration of negotiations on migration along with growing economic and security difficulties in Turkey have led to growing Euroscepticism in the state.

In the Dawn of a New Barbaric Era

Burak Cop • Nov 23 2016 • Articles

People are no longer interested in facts. Post-truth politics is advancing, as seen in Trump’s presidential race in the USA and the Brexit shock.

On the Importance of Speaking As Well As Hearing: A Response to Swati Parashar

Federica Caso • Dec 21 2015 • Articles

Speaking and hearing are not necessarily opposite terms. They are part of the politics of silence and its ambivalence. Speaking creates meanings and forges connections.

@SouthAsia71: Academic Research Tweeted in Real Time

Dave Riley • Dec 21 2015 • Articles

By live-tweeting the 197 war in Pakistan @SouthAsia71 brings primary research to a broader audience and demonstrates the social media’s potential for research purposes.

Anxiety in The British Media Portrayals of Schoolgirls Heading for Syria

Liz Sage • Jun 3 2015 • Articles

With so little to go on, the media are left to construct their own version of events, filling in the silence left by the girls with a cacophony of possible explanations.

Young Western Women, Fandom, and ISIS

Brigitte L. Nacos • May 5 2015 • Articles

ISIS women act increasingly as internet recruiters and online jihadists as social media offer groups ample opportunities for the cultivation of para-social relationships.

Interview – Stephen McGlinchey

E-International Relations • Apr 29 2015 • Features

E-IR’s Editor-in-Chief gives an insiders perspective on the operations of the website, discusses the relevance of social media & blogging, and addresses the importance of open access.

From Citations to Clicks

Dylan Kissane • Nov 11 2014 • Articles

There’s an impression that the world of the academic is independent of the pressures of competition and marketing. That impression is wrong and proving more so every day.

A Transnational Public Sphere for a Digital Generation?

Brian D. Loader • Aug 15 2014 • Articles

The figure of the networked young citizen, politically engaged through a transnational public sphere, is compelling, but other models may come to be more significant.

Video Games and the Simulation of International Conflict

Marcus Schulzke • Aug 1 2014 • Articles

As with other media, games are open to multiple interpretations and can be politically significant in different ways depending on which interpretations they can sustain.

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