So glad to see this article finally see the light! Out now in @emospasoc: we explore how distinct emotions, distrust and disillusionment, shaped the emergence, mobilisation & persistence of anti-lockdown protests. With @ozgeozdu & Bogdan Ianosev. doi.org/10.1016/j.em...

📢I'm happy to share our new publication entitled '“Media is absolutely disgusting”: Emotions and affect towards political elites, information sources and conspiracy theories in anti-lockdown protests' in Emotion, Space and Society with @billuraslanozgul.bsky.social & Bogdan Ianosev (1/2)

İmamoğlu’s X account—Istanbul’s mayor and Erdoğan’s top rival, recently jailed—has been blocked in Turkey. A clear example of how Musk’s ‘commitment to free speech’ favors illiberalism over progressive voices. Erdoğan’s government’s rising authoritarian moves benefit from this new online environment

The BBC has finally made the protests in Turkey its top headline. It also references X, which shut down 700 opposition accounts in Turkey that supported democracy and called for the release of İmamoğlu, Erdoğan’s main rival. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📢 Happy that our article with Bogdan Ianosev and Billur Aslan Ozgul is out, examining the centrality of Manichaeism and conspiracy theories for populism and populist social movements and their organic emergence with populist storytelling in anti-lockdown protests: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What: Me & @profmiskimmon.bsky.social talk #AI, #publicdiplomacy + #strategicnarrative with @adaystew.bsky.social
When: 25 March 12 PM EST
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