Examines the potential of listening to conversations taking place about immigration on Twitter. Summary Over the last fifteen years, immigration has become an increasingly important political issue in the United Kingdom – with growing concern among the settled population about its economic and cultural impact. In 2012, 60 per cent of citizens viewed the rate...

Introduction Trust Many things we hold to be true, we can neither discover nor prove ourselves. Claims about the world often rely on specialised or esoteric knowledge, on information that we cannot access, or on experiences that we have not had. We often rely on other people and institutions – experts, governments, journalists, our friends...

This report explores the potential for social media to support efforts to get out the vote.

Social media represents a new digital commons where people join their social and political lives to those around them. This paper examines the potential of listening to these digital voices on Twitter, and the consequences for how European Union leaders apprehend, respond to and thereby represent their citizens.

This study was undertaken to better understand the volume, degree and type of misogynistic language used on Twitter.