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According to some, the long-running rhetorical battle between nationalism and patriotism has been decided: patriotism has won. Macron’s presidential victory over Le Pen, if you believe various pre-emptive European commentators, has struck a fatal blow against calls of nationalism in...
General election campaigns are a fertile time for social media research. In the run-up to election day, online platforms become battlegrounds, with candidates, commentators and supporters reacting to events, sharing information and vying to control the debate This political fracas...
In an election called to shore up a Brexit negotiating position – with an added bonus of decimating the Opposition at the same time – it’s easy to see how the narrative will play out. Vote Conservative for a successful...
In the immediate aftermath of the American Presidential Election, there was some rather brutal soul-searching about the role that the mainstream media had played in supporting Trump’s victory. The same questions were asked when the BBC took the decision to...
Last week, Demos brought together around 30 leading thinkers on Europe’s social, economic and cultural condition in Brussels, for the second in a series of policy workshops we have been hosting as part of our project – Nothing to Fear...
Over the past month, CASM have worked with ITV’s Peston on Sunday program to take a look at how UK politics is being discussed on Twitter. As the two EU referendum campaigns gather momentum ahead of the 23rd June, we...
In 2015, Yvette Cooper announced the Reclaim the Internet campaign. This was in response to the abuse, often misogynistic in tone, faced by high-profile women online. However, the ubiquity of social media in society today means that this abuse, or...
A few weeks ago, I attended a rather hastily convened roundtable at the European Council for Foreign Relations, to mark the release of another round of Jim McGarry’s global think tank index. Whatever one feels about the value of such...
I was fortunate recently to attend the International Workshop for Managers of Research Organisations in the Western Balkans and the EU in Sarajevo, hosted by Analitika, the Regional Research Promotion Program (RRPP) in the Western Balkans, and the Think Tank...
