A Book to Combat Extremism at Home

Cody Kitaura — February 13, 2024 - 9:00am

In front of a Mondavi Center crowd last week, author Cynthia Miller-Idriss identified two recent moments — the mid-2000s in Germany and the global rise of social media in the later 2010s — as inflection points for new far-right attempts at youth radicalization and recruitment.

New Episode of The Backdrop Podcast Released

Soterios J Johnson — February 25, 2021 - 11:35am

Conventional wisdom has held that as people are exposed to more partisan news, they become more polarized. But a new study finds that’s not so. On this month’s episode of The Backdrop, Magdalena Wojcieszak discusses a couple of new studies she has co-authored that found no correlation between media exposure and political polarization.

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A Book to Combat Extremism at Home

New Episode of The Backdrop Podcast Released