What drives affective polarization? A systematic literature review

Using a corpus from ten German outlets during COVID-19, we examine how mainstream media translated scientific expertise into political debate. We define politicization narrowly as coverage in which...

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This article examines Russia’s Regional Governance Centres, state-run regional offices that process citizen complaints via social media, and the conditions unde...

This study investigates how Germany’s anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protest movement, led mainly by the Querdenken network, allied with conspiracist and far-right groups, utilized scientific authorit...

The ongoing war in Ukraine has generated unprecedented volumes of digital data across multiple domains, from weapons effectiveness and battlefield cas…

This article is dedicated to authoritarian responsiveness and feedback mechanisms that autocratic regimes exploit to keep citizens loyal, using the example of Russia. The study aims to describe how...