Social Media and Politics Folgen

Sergei Samoilenko, co-founder of the Character Assassination and Reputation Politics (CARP) Research Lab at George Mason University, shares his insights on how social media is used as a tool for defamation and crisis communication. We also discuss the state of the internet and social media in Russia, bots and trolls, and the Ukranian crisis. Check out their report: Character Assassination in Theory and Practice. Don't miss Tom Moylan's review of the podcast, and please take 5 minutes for the audience survey!

Please take 5 minutes to take the Audience Survey! And while you're at it, check out our episode on Podcast of the Day! Dr. Nico Carpentier, Professor at the Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University, guests on the podcast this week to discuss media, participation, and conflict in Cyprus. We discuss deliberative versus participatory democracy, as well as Dr. Carpentier's new book, "The Discursive-Material Knot: Cyprus in Conflict and Community Media Participation".

Kenneth Hampton, former Chief of Police in Tchula, Mississippi, joins the podcast to discuss his style of law enforcement, which draws heavily on the use of Facebook. Kenneth discusses how he's used Facebook successfully to curb crime, the controversy he faced surrounding his social media use, and how important his Facebook community is to his job. You can check out Kenneth's Facebook pages, New Southern Justice and Tchula Police Department. The article from the Guardian featured in the intro can be found here.