Even if our heroes survive the season, their future looks bleak.
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Sarah HudspithDinissa Duvanova tackles social media and political behavior in Ukraine
Anastassia KostrioukovaOn February 13, 2015, the Jordan Center’s Colloquium Series welcomed Dinissa Duvanova, an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations at Lehigh University, to speak about her recent research on online social activism in Ukraine. The colloquium, titled Social Networks as a Barometer of Political Polarization, took on a collegial tone, often turning into a conversation between the presenter and the audience about the project itself as well as general problems concerning online data collection and analysis.
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Marijeta BozovicMarijeta Bozovic is an Assistant Professor of Russian & Eurasian Studies at Colgate University.
Dear colleagues and comrades,
This blog-post grows from a group discussion that began over Facebook, and includes input from Eliot Borenstein, Serguei Oushakine, Kevin Platt, Katie Holt, Bella Grigoryan, Maksim Hanukai, Rossen Djagalov, Jesse Labov, and Roman Utkin.
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