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 …

To what extent are Internet users resilient to online censorship? When does censorship
influence consumption of information and when does it create backlash? Drawing on a …

Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: digital media have provided political actors and
citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists …

In recent years, fully automated content analysis based on probabilistic topic models has
become popular among social scientists because of their scalability. However, researchers …

Saudi Arabia has imprisoned and tortured activists, religious leaders, and journalists for
voicing dissent online. This reflects a growing worldwide trend in the use of physical …

Automated and semiautomated Twitter accounts, bots, have recently gained significant
public attention due to their potential interference in the political realm. In this study, we …

Recent antiregime protests throughout the world have been publicized, and arguably
facilitated, by social media and other communication technologies. I develop formal models …

Amidst growing concern over media manipulation, NLP attention has focused on overt
strategies like censorship and" fake news'". Here, we draw on two concepts from the political …

A growing body of research has studied how autocratic regimes interfere with internet
communication to contain challenges to their rule. In this review article, we survey the …

There is abundant anecdotal evidence that nondemocratic regimes are harnessing new
digital technologies known as social media bots to facilitate policy goals. However, few …