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Media and Democracy In India: How Media Repression Is Linked to Polarization

by Clara Cho | Apr 18, 2025 | Boston University

In early January of 2025, freelance journalist Mukesh Chandrakar was found murderered in Bijapur, a district within Chhattisgarh, India. His body was found in a septic tank shortly after he was on assignment to invesitage alleged corruption around local road...

The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Former Satellite States

by Cassandra Fitts | Feb 12, 2025 | Boston University

Former Soviet satellite states that were once poster children for democratization following the decline of European communism have been making drastic pivots towards autocracy in recent years. In 1989 following the fall of the USSR, previously Soviet-occupied Hungary,...

The Digital Divide: Social Media’s Role in Polarization and Democratic Backsliding

by Ailey Costantino | Dec 5, 2024 | Brown University

It was a week after Donald Trump won the US 2024 Presidential Election. My little sister texted me frantically: “Mom keeps accusing Dad of voting for Trump. She can’t get off TikTok… She’s doom-scrolling every morning before work and every night after dinner for...

Censorship and Deception: How Social Media Controls Fuel Misinformation in Turkey

by nunez.146@osu.edu | Nov 4, 2024 | Ohio State University

In August of this year Turkey’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority blocked the social media platform Instagram as an effort to regulate access to the internet. With the rapid blocking of Instagram, a platform with over 50 million Turkish users out of...

Redrawing the Lines: Issue 1, Political Polarization between Ohio Voters

by nunez.146@osu.edu | Oct 14, 2024 | Ohio State University

Through the Franklin County Democratic party, I had the opportunity to participate in several canvasing events this past month. On October 11th and 12th I  canvased the Clintonville and Northland areas from 12- 2 pm as a part of their “knock on doors” campaign to...
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