digital methods for internet policy and politics
Key findings: 53% of analysed complaints by voters to Elections Canada in 2015 related to unsolicited contact by political parties without an opt-out possibility (139 out of a sample total of 264)Other types of complaints ranked much lower: … [Continue reading]
Highlights Internet users were quick to ‘meme’ last week’s scandalous images of Trudeau dressed in ‘brownface’ and ‘blackface’. Memes differed by the political allegiance of those who shared them, illustrating how party supporters make memes to … [Continue reading]
While Maclean’s magazine aspires to entertain its readers, it certainly didn’t expect its 7 November 2018 cover to be quite so entertaining. The cover labelled a photo of five Conservative leaders as “The Resistance” – a reference to anti-Trump … [Continue reading]
Fenwick McKelvey, Concordia University Daemons are real. Or at least computer daemons are. A daemon is early computer slang. In the first computer labs, daemons meant the programs running in the background, doing the invisible work of keeping … [Continue reading]
