Sanja Vico
@sanjavico.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, University of Exeter | Collaborator, LSE | Research & teach digital media in contexts of migration, identity, nationalism, post-conflict justice & peacebuilding | Mixed-method research | Londoner
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Sanja Vico
@sanjavico.bsky.social
· Dec 11
'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age: Banal Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments
This book introduces a new theory of national identity, arguing that the nation does not only represent an abstract “imagined community” but also represents embodied cultural and discursive practices....
www.routledge.com
Delighted my monograph 'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age is available for pre-order with Routledge. 💫
www.routledge.com/Doing-Nation...
www.routledge.com/Doing-Nation...
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Join us on 30 October for our online event!
'Identity Battles on Social Media: Trending in the Western Balkans and Beyond' 🌐
Speakers:
Dr Natasha Dimitrovska
Dr Ivana Stepanovic
Dr Sanja Vico (@sanjavico.bsky.social)
Professor Denisa Kostovicova (@denisakost.bsky.social)
tinyurl.com/379vk4eb
'Identity Battles on Social Media: Trending in the Western Balkans and Beyond' 🌐
Speakers:
Dr Natasha Dimitrovska
Dr Ivana Stepanovic
Dr Sanja Vico (@sanjavico.bsky.social)
Professor Denisa Kostovicova (@denisakost.bsky.social)
tinyurl.com/379vk4eb
October 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Join us on 30 October for our online event!
'Identity Battles on Social Media: Trending in the Western Balkans and Beyond' 🌐
Speakers:
Dr Natasha Dimitrovska
Dr Ivana Stepanovic
Dr Sanja Vico (@sanjavico.bsky.social)
Professor Denisa Kostovicova (@denisakost.bsky.social)
tinyurl.com/379vk4eb
'Identity Battles on Social Media: Trending in the Western Balkans and Beyond' 🌐
Speakers:
Dr Natasha Dimitrovska
Dr Ivana Stepanovic
Dr Sanja Vico (@sanjavico.bsky.social)
Professor Denisa Kostovicova (@denisakost.bsky.social)
tinyurl.com/379vk4eb
Such as HIGHER *EDUCATION* 🚨
Here's an idea. Fund your leading source of soft power and information properly.
UK orders its top diplomats to sell Brand Britain
Foreign Secretary David Lammy is sending senior diplomats on a road trip across the U.K. in early July to gather investment ideas to pitch overseas.
www.politico.eu/article/uk-d...
Foreign Secretary David Lammy is sending senior diplomats on a road trip across the U.K. in early July to gather investment ideas to pitch overseas.
www.politico.eu/article/uk-d...
May 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Such as HIGHER *EDUCATION* 🚨
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We'll be live at 1730 today London time discussing "'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age" with @sanjavico.bsky.social, @madianou.bsky.social,, Sandra Obradović, and Birgül Yılmaz - join us on Zoom, YouTube, or Facebook - details and links at asen.ac.uk/event/vico
April 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
We'll be live at 1730 today London time discussing "'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age" with @sanjavico.bsky.social, @madianou.bsky.social,, Sandra Obradović, and Birgül Yılmaz - join us on Zoom, YouTube, or Facebook - details and links at asen.ac.uk/event/vico
Please join us for my book launch on Monday at 17:30 BST 👇🏻
Our event on "'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age" with @sanjavico.bsky.social, @madianou.bsky.social, Sandra Obradović, and Birgül Yılmaz has been rescheduled to April 7th at 1700 - do join us! All the links + extra information are at asen.ac.uk/event/vico/
April 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Please join us for my book launch on Monday at 17:30 BST 👇🏻
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Join us live online on Wednesday at 1630 UK time as @sanjavico.bsky.social discusses her new book, 'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age, with @madianou.bsky.social, Sandra Obradović, and Birgül Yılmaz - details at asen.ac.uk/event/vico/
March 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Join us live online on Wednesday at 1630 UK time as @sanjavico.bsky.social discusses her new book, 'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age, with @madianou.bsky.social, Sandra Obradović, and Birgül Yılmaz - details at asen.ac.uk/event/vico/
Reposted by Sanja Vico
Join us live online on Wednesday at 1630 UK time as @sanjavico.bsky.social discusses her new book, 'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age, with @madianou.bsky.social, Sandra Obradović, and Birgül Yılmaz - details at asen.ac.uk/event/vico/
March 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Join us live online on Wednesday at 1630 UK time as @sanjavico.bsky.social discusses her new book, 'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age, with @madianou.bsky.social, Sandra Obradović, and Birgül Yılmaz - details at asen.ac.uk/event/vico/
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Can social media users help others spot misinformation by posting comments that flag false content?
Yes, but there is a downside
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
UK, DE, IT; N > 6,600
With Sabrina Stöckli, Besir Ceka, Chiara Ricchi, @benlyons.bsky.social & @jasonreifler.bsky.social y.social
Yes, but there is a downside
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
UK, DE, IT; N > 6,600
With Sabrina Stöckli, Besir Ceka, Chiara Ricchi, @benlyons.bsky.social & @jasonreifler.bsky.social y.social
February 14, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Can social media users help others spot misinformation by posting comments that flag false content?
Yes, but there is a downside
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
UK, DE, IT; N > 6,600
With Sabrina Stöckli, Besir Ceka, Chiara Ricchi, @benlyons.bsky.social & @jasonreifler.bsky.social y.social
Yes, but there is a downside
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
UK, DE, IT; N > 6,600
With Sabrina Stöckli, Besir Ceka, Chiara Ricchi, @benlyons.bsky.social & @jasonreifler.bsky.social y.social
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🥁 Drumroll, please - the schedule for #asen2025 is up now at asen.ac.uk/conferenc...!
March 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
🥁 Drumroll, please - the schedule for #asen2025 is up now at asen.ac.uk/conferenc...!
🚨SAVE THE DATE🚨
Join us for my #DoingNation book launch 👉🏻 asen.ac.uk/event/vico/
📌 Wed 19 Mar at 16:30 UTC, Online, organised by @asenevents.bsky.social & CES @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
Look forward to discussing my book w/ the brilliant @madianou.bsky.social, Sandra Obradović & Birgül Yılmaz
Join us for my #DoingNation book launch 👉🏻 asen.ac.uk/event/vico/
📌 Wed 19 Mar at 16:30 UTC, Online, organised by @asenevents.bsky.social & CES @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
Look forward to discussing my book w/ the brilliant @madianou.bsky.social, Sandra Obradović & Birgül Yılmaz
March 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🚨SAVE THE DATE🚨
Join us for my #DoingNation book launch 👉🏻 asen.ac.uk/event/vico/
📌 Wed 19 Mar at 16:30 UTC, Online, organised by @asenevents.bsky.social & CES @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
Look forward to discussing my book w/ the brilliant @madianou.bsky.social, Sandra Obradović & Birgül Yılmaz
Join us for my #DoingNation book launch 👉🏻 asen.ac.uk/event/vico/
📌 Wed 19 Mar at 16:30 UTC, Online, organised by @asenevents.bsky.social & CES @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
Look forward to discussing my book w/ the brilliant @madianou.bsky.social, Sandra Obradović & Birgül Yılmaz
Very well deserved! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I was honoured to receive the ISA Human Rights Section Book Award for my @cornellupress.bsky.social Reconciliation by Stealth. Like the book, I dedicate the award to those seeking justice after violence & those helping them in their search @lse-ei.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Very well deserved! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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📊 Are domestic war crimes trials biased? We use Text as Data methods, using LIWC to look at judicial decisions from Serbia (1999–2019). We find conflict actor bias—paramilitary crimes are described in longer, more graphic detail, while state actors' crimes receive shorter, more neutral accounts.
NEW ARTICLE: Analysing the verdicts and the texts of judgements, we find that the state shifts responsibility away from state forces to paramilitaries in Serbian war crimes trials, with Ivor Sokolic @lanabi.bsky.social @sanjavico.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/jx39z792
tinyurl.com/jx39z792
Are domestic war crimes trials biased? - Ivor Sokolić, Denisa Kostovicova, Lanabi La Lova, Sanja Vico, 2024
Fairness of domestic war crimes trials matters for promoting justice and peace. Scholars have studied public perceptions of war crimes trials to assess their fa...
tinyurl.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
📊 Are domestic war crimes trials biased? We use Text as Data methods, using LIWC to look at judicial decisions from Serbia (1999–2019). We find conflict actor bias—paramilitary crimes are described in longer, more graphic detail, while state actors' crimes receive shorter, more neutral accounts.
Reposted by Sanja Vico
NEW ARTICLE: Analysing the verdicts and the texts of judgements, we find that the state shifts responsibility away from state forces to paramilitaries in Serbian war crimes trials, with Ivor Sokolic @lanabi.bsky.social @sanjavico.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/jx39z792
tinyurl.com/jx39z792
Are domestic war crimes trials biased? - Ivor Sokolić, Denisa Kostovicova, Lanabi La Lova, Sanja Vico, 2024
Fairness of domestic war crimes trials matters for promoting justice and peace. Scholars have studied public perceptions of war crimes trials to assess their fa...
tinyurl.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
NEW ARTICLE: Analysing the verdicts and the texts of judgements, we find that the state shifts responsibility away from state forces to paramilitaries in Serbian war crimes trials, with Ivor Sokolic @lanabi.bsky.social @sanjavico.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/jx39z792
tinyurl.com/jx39z792
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The Special Issue on 'Interactions for Justice' is out now! Guest Editors @denisakost.bsky.social& @sanjavico.bsky.social introduce the concept of interaction as an analytical category and empirical strategy for transitional justice research. Read & share widely.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Interactions for Justice: An Introduction
Introducing the Special Issue, this article presents the concept of interaction as an analytical category and empirical strategy for transitional justice research. The case for centring interaction...
www.tandfonline.com
January 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The Special Issue on 'Interactions for Justice' is out now! Guest Editors @denisakost.bsky.social& @sanjavico.bsky.social introduce the concept of interaction as an analytical category and empirical strategy for transitional justice research. Read & share widely.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Congrats Sanja with your new book. Would love to host you at GloTech / UMass for your US book tour!
Delighted my monograph 'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age is available for pre-order with Routledge. 💫
www.routledge.com/Doing-Nation...
www.routledge.com/Doing-Nation...
'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age: Banal Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments
This book introduces a new theory of national identity, arguing that the nation does not only represent an abstract “imagined community” but also represents embodied cultural and discursive practices....
www.routledge.com
December 11, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Congrats Sanja with your new book. Would love to host you at GloTech / UMass for your US book tour!
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How do people form their national identity? Is it an abstract sense of belonging to an imagined community? Or is it more dynamic than that - something rooted in interpersonal communication? @sanjavico.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk explores this dynamic in her new book.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
New book argues national identity increasingly owes debt to interpersonal communication through social media
Personal communication with friends and family – particularly through social media – is one of the most important ways in which people form their national identity, a new book argues. ‘Doing Nation’ i...
news.exeter.ac.uk
December 11, 2024 at 10:47 AM
How do people form their national identity? Is it an abstract sense of belonging to an imagined community? Or is it more dynamic than that - something rooted in interpersonal communication? @sanjavico.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk explores this dynamic in her new book.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Delighted my monograph 'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age is available for pre-order with Routledge. 💫
www.routledge.com/Doing-Nation...
www.routledge.com/Doing-Nation...
'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age: Banal Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments
This book introduces a new theory of national identity, arguing that the nation does not only represent an abstract “imagined community” but also represents embodied cultural and discursive practices....
www.routledge.com
December 11, 2024 at 6:14 AM
Delighted my monograph 'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age is available for pre-order with Routledge. 💫
www.routledge.com/Doing-Nation...
www.routledge.com/Doing-Nation...