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WELCOME TO DIGITAL WAVES’ SPECIAL DIGITAL CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY SERIES
What we're tracking this election season.
Oct 16, 2024
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Insights from Field-Led Research: 8 Fan-Informed Storyscapes; Reparative Storytelling; Organizing TikTok Creators; and more.
In this issue, we spotlight research and analysis developed by pop culture narrative change field members that informs digital storytelling and…
Nov 10, 2023
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Evan Blaise Walsh
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Lincoln Mondy
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Jessica Clark
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Tracy Van Slyke
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Insights from Field-Led Research: 8 Fan-Informed Storyscapes; Reparative Storytelling; Organizing TikTok Creators; and more.
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Innovating How We Engage with Gaming Communities
THE BIG QUESTION: As we reckon with white supremacists’ efforts to radicalize gamers, what strategies can we employ as a field to reach them instead? We…
Oct 26, 2023
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Evan Blaise Walsh
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Innovating How We Engage with Gaming Communities
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Video Game Audiences 101 and the Hollywood Dynamic
THE BIG QUESTION: Despite a glut of cisgender straight white men employed in the gaming industry, gaming fandoms continue to become more diverse in…
Oct 26, 2023
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Evan Blaise Walsh
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Video Game Audiences 101 and the Hollywood Dynamic
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How Can We Cultivate and Mobilize Powerful Video Game Communities?
Audiences for video games and the fans who livestream them are huge and growing. Hollywood has noticed, with high-profile adaptations. What will it take…
Oct 26, 2023
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Evan Blaise Walsh
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How Can We Cultivate and Mobilize Powerful Video Game Communities?
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Games as a Far-Right Recruiting Ground
THE BIG TAKEAWAY: Games and the communities that coalesce around them have proven to be fertile recruiting ground for extremists.
Oct 24, 2023
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Jessica Clark
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Games as a Far-Right Recruiting Ground
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The Kids Online Safety Act—Or, a Censorship Bill In Disguise?
From Digital Waves team members Lincoln Mondy and Evan Walsh: For as long as our social media overlords have existed, issues and content related to…
Sep 15, 2023
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Lincoln Mondy
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Evan Blaise Walsh
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The Kids Online Safety Act—Or, a Censorship Bill In Disguise?
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AI All The Time
Did you actually spend time this summer on the beach instead of reading obsessively about how AI is going to change culture as we know it? No worries…
Sep 15, 2023
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Jessica Clark
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The Digital Waves We Surfed This Summer: AI, #Books, and The Kids Online Safety Act
It’s a link-a-palooza newsletter!
Sep 15, 2023
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Tracy Van Slyke
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Lincoln Mondy
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Evan Blaise Walsh
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Jessica Clark
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The Digital Waves We Surfed This Summer: AI, #Books, and The Kids Online Safety Act
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The Ties Between Sound of Freedom and QAnon; Fan Megasite Attack Offers New Clues on Toxic Tactics
Take a deep breath—then dive in as we analyze how toxic cultural movements are activating their digital narrative strategies.
Aug 24, 2023
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Tracy Van Slyke
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Katie Bowers
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The Ties Between Sound of Freedom and QAnon; Fan Megasite Attack Offers New Clues on Toxic Tactics
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International Digital Warfare has a New Front: Fanfiction Communities
We recap how fanfiction site Archive of Our Own weathered a DDoS cyberattack in July and explore the community's attempts to resist radicalization and…
Aug 23, 2023
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Katie Bowers
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International Digital Warfare has a New Front: Fanfiction Communities
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Strategies for Limiting Digital Harm
THE BIG TAKEAWAY: Digital platforms are being used to mainstream toxic narratives and behaviors in order to both create anti-pluralist environments and…
Jul 28, 2023
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Evan Blaise Walsh
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Lincoln Mondy
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Jessica Clark
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Tracy Van Slyke
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