One of the most puzzling aspects of new wave of digitally-fueled movements has been their boom-bust cycle. Digital technologies have empowered movements to coordinate, to puncture censorship and to publicize their own narrative. Global discontent runs high, and the number of protests globally has more than tripled, from Middle…
Special Dinner for Students with Panelists from the LAPA “Case or Controversy” program examining the future of public-employee labor unionsFor more information: http://lapa.princeton.edu/content/case-or-controversy-unions RSVP to lapaeven@princeton.edu
In addition to serving as the national security correspondent and senior writer for The New York Times, Sanger also is the author of two Times bestsellers on foreign affairs: “The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power” (2009) and “Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use…
Political actors around the world are beginning to use social bots—automated software programs designed to interact with and imitate human users–to manipulate public opinion. Social bots have been used across numerous online platforms to spread various forms of propaganda, flood newsfeeds with political spam, and pad…
2016 American Studies Graduate Student Conference at Princeton University. For almost a decade now, the Princeton University Program in American Studies has supported graduate students in organizing cross-disciplinary conferences that bring in leading scholars as keynote speakers and provide opportunity for graduate students to…
