Addressing the challenges to analyzing Russian political influence operations.
The (Non)Americans: Tracking and Analyzing Russian Influence Operations on Twitter
University of North Carolina’s Deen Freelon will explain how he and his collaborators are addressing challenges to analyzing Russian political influence operations and present key preliminary findings from their ongoing project focused on this campaign.
From Trump Tower to the White House, in 140 Characters: The Hyper-Mediated Election of a Paranoid Populist President
Trump’s political communications reached a wider audience, on a sturdier basis, than earlier figures who had similarly adopted a “paranoid populist” philosophy.
Podcast: Michael Lee, “The Conservative Canon Before and After Trump”
Michael J. Lee charts the vital role of canonical post–World War II (1945–1964) books in generating, guiding, and sustaining conservatism as a political force in the United States.
Michael Lee: “The Conservative Canon Before and After Trump”
Michael J. Lee charts the vital role of canonical post–World War II (1945–1964) books in generating, guiding, and sustaining conservatism as a political force in the United States.
Podcast: Charles Musser, “From Stereopticon to Telephone: The Selling of the President in the Gilded Age”
Charles Musser: “19th century media forms set in motion not only a new way of imagining how to market national campaigns and candidates; they also helped to usher in novel forms of mass spectatorship.”
From Stereopticon to Telephone: The Selling of the President in the Gilded Age
Charles Musser: “19th century media forms set in motion not only a new way of imagining how to market national campaigns and candidates; they also helped to usher in novel forms of mass spectatorship.”
