
Rachel to speak at “Digital Campaigning in Dissonant Public Spheres”
Between the 8th and the 11th of May, 2022, the conference 'Digital Campaigning in Dissonant Public Spheres' will take place in Cadenabbia, Italy. This is an international conference to discuss the current state of research about political communication and, more...

Quarterly Data Review
Just before the Early May bank holiday, the 3 musketeers of DiCED - Rachel, Peter and Esmeralda - met to review data: the data to be accessed, obtained and analysed by DICED, according to the research questions guiding our project. These research questions are:What is...

DiCED at Memes & Methods Workshop (21 March)
Tune in to the Memes & Methods workshop!Two members of DiCED - Esmeralda Bon and Niamh Cashell - will be presenting at the Memes & Methods Workshop organised by the Digital Futures cluster at the University of Manchester. This workshop will take place on the...

Project update 📢: DiCED on to France!
Preparations are well on their way at DiCED to study the 2022 French presidential and legislative election campaigns.The first round of the 2022 French presidential election will take place on the 10th of April 2022. If no candidate obtains a majority of votes, then...

“Digital Micro-Targeting: An Unclear but Present Danger to Democracy?”
On the 9th of February 2022, our own Rachel Gibson presented the talk "Digital Micro-Targeting: An Unclear but Present Danger to Democracy?" This was the second webinar hosted by the Institute of Journalism and Media Communication of the University of Silesia in...

DiCED at Hertie School of Governance
On 18 January 2022, DiCED's own Rachel Gibson gave a talk on the DiCED project and particularly the methodological challenges of studying contemporary Digital Campaigns as part of the Executive Masters in Public Administration degree programme at Hertie School of...

📢 DiCED Panel at APSA 2022
DiCED is pleased to announce that our proposal Re-wiring and Restructuring Electoral Mobilization?: Assessing the Impact of the Pandemic on the Study and Practice of Political Campaigning has been selected by the UK Political Studies Association as their sponsored...

Evidence submission to PACAC
Professor Rachel Gibson has recently submitted evidence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee in response to a request for feedback about the powers that the Electoral Commission has and should have. She writes about the need to regulate...

Democracy@Risk Report now released
‘In the wake of the digital surge caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, citizens are spending a record proportion of their day on their digital devices, whilst the level of public dissatisfaction with democracy is at its highest since the mid-1990s. It seems that in this...

Workshop about Security, Trust, and the Crisis of Democracy
On the 10th and 11th of September, the virtual workshop 'Security, Truth and the Crisis of Democracy' will take place. This workshop has a great line-up of panels, including one where our Rachel Gibson will be speaking about Democracy@Risk!Please feel free to register...
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