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...
Event: Launch of the Democracy@Risk Report
On the 20th of September, the Democracy@Risk project will launch a report summarising the key findings of a multidisciplinary literature review conducted by the Democracy@Risk Project at the University of Manchester in 2020. Drawing on existing research and...
Award for “When the Nerds Go Marching In” 🥳
Many congratulations to our own Rachel Gibson, who has received the Best Book Award by the Information Technology and Politics Section of APSA (the American Political Science Association). After careful review, the panel decided that Rachel's work, ‘When the Nerds Go...
Second Annual DiCED workshop
The second DiCED team workshop was held virtually on June 24, 2021. It brought together the University of...
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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) (Grant agreement no. 833177)
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