Colleagues, The Measuring Media Accuracy workshop, funded by the Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership at UCLA, is on Friday February 17th at the Luskin Conference Center. The details are attached in pdf.  The program is as follows: 9:15    Welcome, by Stuart Soroka (UCLA, website) 9:30    Robert Bond (Ohio State University, website) 10:30  Amber Boydstun (UC Davis, website) 11:30  Christopher Wlezien (UT Austin, website) 12:30  Lunch 1:45    Kasper Welbers (VU University […]

Abstract: Repression research examines the causes and consequences of actions or policies that are meant to, or actually do, raise the costs of activism, protest, and/or social movement activity. The rise of digital and social media has brought substantial increases in attention to the repression of digital activists and movements and/or to the use of digital […]