politics

Qanon, Qarmy, Trump

QArmy vs. QAnon Debunkers: The role of confirmation bias

Paper
Federica Morgandi
23/03/2020
12 minutes to read

QAnon is an American conspiracy theory associated with Trump supporters and right-wing politics. How can one article - which seeks to explain what QAnon is - influence debunkers and believers of the theory?

Boston Marathon bombing

Digital vigilantism and the Boston Marathon bombing

Article
Nataliia Vdovychenko
07/02/2020
16 minutes to read

The 2013 Boston Marathon bombing was a major event in the US. The tragic attack then became the subject of one the biggest manhunts in online history. 

identity politics, race, conservatives

Conservative critiques of identity politics as divisive

Column
Rosalyn Negrón
13/01/2020
11 minutes to read

Rosalyn Negron unpacks the logics that underlie conservative critiques of left identity politics and zooms in on the specific significance of this discursive frame among conservatives.

OK boomer meme online culture generations

The discursive construction of the OK boomer meme

Article
Elle Lüchau
10/01/2020
12 minutes to read

In this article, I analyse the discursive construction of the OK boomer meme, examining its political and ideological significance and its different modes of use in a digital media system.

Chernobyl

Chernobyl as a medium of global art

Article
Nataliia Vdovychenko
06/01/2020
14 minutes to read

People all around the world discover the topic of Chernobyl and rethink the tragedy of 1986 through works of art connected to nuclear energy, information, and politics. How does art creation on a global scale remind us of the tragedy?