Tag: Donald Trump

Online Networks and Social Change

Post-truth. In Colour! Online Networks and the Breakdown of Objective Standards of Truth.

Daniel Blanket11 Comments

Abstract NET2004-Post-truth.-In-ColourDownload Online networks have had and continue to have an irrefutable impact upon the way humans interact with knowledge and information. The question is raised- how have online networks altered the way society perceives information? Applying a postmodernist lens and using the 2016 US Presidential Election as a case study, this conference paper shall investigate this notion, arguing that social media has actively weakened objective standards of truth, Read more […]

Social Networks, Trump and Capitol Hill
Online Networks and Social Change

Social Networks, Trump and Capitol Hill

Emma Takes22 Comments

Abstract:   On the 6th of January 2021, The United States Congress convened a joint session to officially count electoral votes and declare the certified winner of the Presidential election. These proceedings were abruptly interrupted as supporters of then President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol. The brutal assault upon the nation’s pinnacle of democracy was in the unsubstantiated belief of electoral fraud and of a stolen election. The breaching of Capitol Hill suggested it was Read more […]