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Anita Gohdes
@argohdes.bsky.social
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Studying repression, the internet, and contentious politics. Professor @thehertieschool. Consultant @hrdag. she/her.

Wrote a book on repression in the digital age: https://www.anitagohdes.net/book.html
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Coming soon: our introduction to the politics of human rights 🥳📚

Preorder available here: www.cambridge.org/highereducat...

@sabinecarey.bsky.social
Cover of book, titled „The Politics of Human Rights“ by Sabine Carey, Mark Gibney, and Anita Gohdes. Picture shows a woman kneeling in front riot police during a BLM protest in the US.
August 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Happy Pride Month 💪

(Image: @mattxiv.bsky.social)
queer people will outlive donald trump queer people will outlive elon musk queer people will outlive jk rowling queer people will outlive fascism queer people have always been here queer people will always be here deal with it
June 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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"You will be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits (Berlin edition):
December 25, 2024 at 1:34 PM
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This brings back memories from early 2017: Amnesty published a report on the horrors in Saydnaya Prison (www.amnesty.org/en/documents...). We @ HRDAG provided statistical analyses of deaths in detention (hrdag.org/wp-content/u...).
Assad claimed all of it was 'fake news'.
December 8, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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I don’t know what any of these words mean!
December 5, 2024 at 7:43 AM
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This new study by Chenoweth, Hammam,
Pressman & @jayulfelder.bsky.social on "Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024" is well worth reading: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
By looking at property damage and police injuries, we also conclude that this pro-Palestine movement has not been violent. That is true of both the national protest wave in general and of the student encampments in spring 2024 in particular. The CCC tracks several features of protest events that might be construed as indicators of protester violence, including property damage caused by protesters and injuries to police present at the event. In the nearly 12,400 pro-Palestine events, we recorded from 7 October to 7 June, we have only seen reports of property damage at 167 of them and police injuries at 18. Most of the instances of property damage involved graffiti or similar defacement of property, and virtually all the police injuries occurred while the police officers were making arrests. If we narrow our view to the 3,875 protests at colleges and universities and other schools, the incidence of property damage is 46 and of police injuries is 9, with similar caveats about the what and the how.
November 4, 2024 at 9:12 AM
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This quote by @evelyndouek.bsky.social sums it up:
Evelyn Douek, a content moderation scholar and professor at Stanford Law School, said Cutler’s direct intervention is “obviously extremely concerning” given the specific stakes. “You have a person inside Meta representing the interests of the government on an issue about which there is deeply contested political debate it appears, to favor one side of that debate. The concerns about bias and disproportionate enforcement of a policy when that is happening seem obvious.”
October 22, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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Happy to share this paper with @zacharyst.bsky.social
that was just published in the AJPS.

We study how civilian behavior on social media shifts during war, focusing on one of the most horrific episodes of the Syrian conflict - the siege of Aleppo: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Abstract of paper by Anita Gohdes and Zachary Steinert Threlkeld reading: Recent research emphasizes social media’s potential for citizens to express shared grievances. In active conflict, however, social media posts indicating political loyalties can pose severe risks to civilians. We develop a theory that explains how civilians modify their online behavior as part of efforts to improve their security during conflict. After major changes in territorial control, civilians should be more likely to post positive content, and more content that supports the winning side. We study social media behavior during and after the siege of Aleppo in November 2016. We match Aleppo-based Twitter users with users from other parts of Syria and use large language models to analyze changes in online behavior after the regime’s retaking of the city. Results show that users in Aleppo post more positive and pro-Assad content, but only when self-disclosing their location.
August 29, 2024 at 10:41 AM
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Berlin heute stabil auf der Straße, trotz ☔️
Big demonstration crowds in front of the Bundestag
February 3, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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I think influencers call this *unboxing* ✨✨✨
A box full of Anita’s book “Repression in the Digital Age”
January 24, 2024 at 9:22 AM
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I would love to follow more expert commentary on developments at the ICJ but I cannot for the life of me stomach the other hell-site anymore - who can I follow on Bluesky (Polisky ?) to get more useful analysis?
Old man cup of coffee - I'm done being an expert on vaccines - This week I'm an international law specialist
January 12, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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My book “Repression in the Digital Age” is out tomorrow with
OUP! ✨✨✨

You can order it here (and there is a lil' savings code in the picture they sent me 😊): global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Flyer showing the book cover for "Repression in the Digital Age" by Anita Gohdes. includes a promo code to get 30% off when ordering the book (code: ASFLYQ6).
November 30, 2023 at 3:27 PM
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Hot off the presses 📖📚 Very excited to have a copy of @zararah.bsky.social’s new book! www.roughtrade.com/en-gb/produc...
A picture of Zara Rahman‘s new book titled “ “Machine readable me“
November 7, 2023 at 9:34 AM
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My standard encounters with wildlife in Berlin are rats, so this was a nice surprise
A handsome fox strolls the streets of Berlin.
October 22, 2023 at 6:59 PM
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please
August 25, 2023 at 12:10 PM
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Just received the proofs for my book - should be out in a couple of months! 🤩📚
Picture of front page of book manuscript proofs, reading "Repression in the Digital Age - Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence" by Anita R. Gohdes
August 21, 2023 at 12:48 PM
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Picture of a cat. Text reads: „i do the opposite of gatekeeping. you will be forced to like my interests. you will listen.“
August 10, 2023 at 12:58 PM