europe

  • STOA Study : Technology and social polarisation

    STOA studies
    Consult the full study   With the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it became clear how technologies such as social media and techniques such as psychological profiling can be combined in election campaigns with worrying effects. Personalised political messaging is highly automated. It starts and ends with...
  • STOA Study : Polarisation and the news media in Europe

    STOA studies
    This report describes a review of the literature examining the effect of news use on polarisation across Europe. In considering work concerned with both the supply side of news (news production) and the demand side (news consumption), the report concludes that across Europe there is as yet little evidence...
  • A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Kajsa Falasca about online disinformation in elections

    Interviews
    Interview with Kajsa Falasca, Senior Lecturer and Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Communication Science (MKV) at the research centre DEMICOM at Mid University Sweden.     Prior to last year's elections in Sweden, huge numbers of fake news items were posted on Twitter, concerning Islam...