A prison of our own design: divided democracy in the age of social media Social media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like-minded, creating echo chambers that amplify our views, writes Cass R Sunstein in an edited extract from #Republic: ...
1999. "The Impact of Action Research and Education Reform in Northern Ireland: Education in Democracy." British Educational Research Journal 25 (2): 141-155. Kennedy, Ruth and Alan McMurray. Interview by AU Scholars 2015 Northern Ireland Research Group...
President of Race Forward Glenn Harris set the stage in his opening when he quoted Vincent Harding: “I am a citizen of a country that does not yet exist.” Plenary: “Navigating the Post-Election Landscape: Insights and Strategies for a Just Democracy” moderated by:Judith Brown Dianis ...
This war of opinion tribes hasn’t gone unnoticed in other media, either. Newspapers around the world are filled with columns lamenting our unbridgeable ideological divides; PowerPoint presentations on polarisation echo through academic halls; titles such as Democracy Divided and ...
The head of an international observer mission to the US elections on Wednesday (4 November) criticised President Trump's allegations of fraud in the election, and expressed concern over attempts by his campaign to stop vote counting, saying it "undermined public trust" in democracy. Biden...
Regardless of church affiliation, secular humanism is the air westerners breathe, the lens we gaze through. Like any world view, this outlook is pervasive and transparent. It forms the basis of our broad identification with democracy and with the pursuit of freedom in all its countless and begui...
Hivemind helps readers appreciate how investing in the collective and developing healthy tech habits can help address some of the great challenges facing youth, society, and democracy. Cavanagh, S. R. (2019). Hivemind: The new science of tribalism in our divided world. Gr...
A prison of our own design: divided democracy in the age of social media Social media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like-minded, creating echo chambers that amplify our views, writes Cass R Sunstein in an edited extract from #Republic: ...
Voting behavior in democracies has been under examination by scholars. A more complex situation exists in deeply divided societies, since they have long been seen as challenging for maintaining stability and democracy [24]. Low [25] provides examples from Africa and Asia to show that tribalism and...