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Online Political Discourse, Identity, and the Future of Democracy
Thu, September 15, 2:00 to 3:30pm, TBASession Submission Type: Created Panel
Session Description
This panel focuses on some of the latest trends in online political discourse and its power to activate publics on a series of topics ranging from financial trading to biodiversity. Case studies across different platforms (Reddit, Twitter, and Weibo) and regions (China, Puerto Rico, the U.S.) are examined.
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Individual Presentations
Discursive Power in Fragmented Media Systems – the GameStop Short Squeeze Case - Michael Vaughan; Johannes B. Gruber, European New School of Digital Studies (ENS); Ana Ines Langer, University of Glasgow
One Person’s Extinction is Another’s Evolution: Biodiversity in Online Discourse - Kenneth S. Rogerson, Duke University
Perceptions of Identity in Policymaker Responsiveness to Citizen Communication - Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Yale University
Tweeting Cheap Talk: Elites’ communication strategies during corruption scandals - Mayra Velez-Serrano, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus; Kevin Wagner, Florida Atlantic University; Jason Gainous, Duke Kunshan University