Sonia Sarkar
Followers of the âHindutvaâ Hindu nationalist movement are using AI-generated pornographic images to degrade Indian Muslim women â including public figures. Their tactics, argues Sonia Sarkar, serve the movementâs wider drive to humiliate Indiaâs 200-million-strong Muslim community Read more
Selina Mabrouki
Populist leaders donât just claim to represent the people â theyâŻembodyâŻthem. Through strongman toughness or maternal guardianship, populists model idealised versions of a nationâs citizens, and they naturalise exclusion.âŻSelina MabroukiâŻshows how contemporary populist leaders exploit gendered role models as tools of emotional persuasion Read more
Silvia DĂaz FernĂĄndez
Research on digital violence must account for its metapolitical dimension.âŻSilvia DĂaz FernĂĄndezâŻreveals how proponents of the far-right metapolitical project are shaping public discourse to fit their anti-democratic interests. Digital violence against women, racialised people and queer communities is all part of their strategy Read more
Jana Belschner
Jana BelschnerâŻanalysed 875,000 Twitter exchanges during Germany's 2021 election. Here, she reveals complex patterns in online toxicity between citizens and elites. Politiciansâ behaviour matters, but identity markers also shape experiences of digital political toxicity Read more
Marco Improta
Who benefits from feminism, and who loses from it?âŻMarco Improta and Elisabetta Mannoni reveal an ideological gap between young men and women across Europe. This gap â strong in the UK, but absent in Norway â may relate to perceptions of the 'winners and losers' of feminism Read more
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