Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Trials by media have new judges argues new commentary from Populist Public’s Sandra Robinson

Trials by media have found new judges online. New commentary published in Feminist Media Studies by Populist Publics co-lead Dr. Sandra Robinson and Carleton University colleague, Dr. Emily Hiltz addresses the role misogyny, anti-feminisms, and disinformation played in convening public opinion in the widely publicized and sensationalized... More

Monday, January 29, 2024

Jennifer Evans Chairs Panel on Online Hate in NYC

Jennifer Evans chaired a panel on Antisemitism and Online Hate at the Center for Jewish History's one-day symposium on antisemitism. She queried panelists Sabine von Mehring, Günther Jikeli, and Mike Rothschild about their research findings on Holocaust denial and conspiracy theories, drawing insights from her own SSHRC supported Populist Publics... More

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Research Team Participates in Roundtable at Centre for Global Pluralism

On October 31st, at the Centre for Global Pluralism in Ottawa, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung hosted a roundtable discussion featuring Jennifer Evans, primary investigator of the SSHRC-supported Populist Publics project on online hate and historical misrepresentation, along with Swen Steinberg (Queens U), Dani Carron (Carleton U, MA '23) and David... More

Saturday, September 23, 2023

Evans and Team Publish Article on German-Canadian Hate Networks Past and Present

This summer, Jennifer Evans, Swen Steinberg, David Yuzva Clement and Danielle Carron published "Settler Colonialism, Illiberal Memory, and German-Canadian Hate Networks in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centures" in Central European History. In it they analyzed the appeal of Canada to German fascist groups, Holocaust deniers, far-right groups and... More

Friday, April 29, 2022

Populist Publics’ Brandon Rigato Testifies Before Parliament

Brandon Rigato, research associate with Populist Publics, participated in Parliamentary Committee on the rise of Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism (IMVE) in Canada. Rigato, a PhD candidate (ABD) in The School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University, provided a witness statement at the House of Commons’ Standing Committee... More

Monday, April 25, 2022

Now Available: ‘Provocation and Challenge: Populism and Neo-Fascism in Transnational Contexts’

The lecture series - 'Provocation and Challenge: Populism and Neo-Fascism in Transnational Contexts' is now available to view on  YouTube. The series explores the transatlantic connections between Europe and Canada as they relate to far-right ideologies and networks, as well as the resilience and opposition of particular national contexts.... More

Friday, February 18, 2022

Platform Multiverse: Discontent and Disconnection among Alt-Rights

On February 16, 2022, Populist Publics Co-investigator, Dr. Sandra Robinson, has published ‘Platform Multiverse: Discontent and Disconnection among Alt-Rights’ in the Canadian Journal of Communication. The article explores the ‘platform multiverse’ whereby groups and individuals, ideas, and discourses move across and between social... More

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Roundtable Series with Support of CES and German Embassy

Over the next two months, members of the Populist Publics project will be participating in a series of virtual round-tables offered by Carleton University's Center for European Studies. The series - 'Provocation and Challenge: Populism and Neo-Fascism in Transnational Contexts' - will explore, in three panels, the transatlantic connections between... More

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Triangular Hate Receives Heritage Grant

Triangular Hate, a Populist Publics project tracking the distortion of historical memory by right-wing transatlantic networks, has received support from the Government of Canada in the form of a major grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage's Digital Citizen Contribution Program. 'Triangular Hate: digital memory, disinformation, and... More

Monday, June 29, 2020

Hate 3.0 and multiculturalism

Read our first project Commentary on Hate 3.0 by research collaborator, Prof. Laura Madokoro.  Although it is celebrated, multiculturalism in Canada is deeply contested in terms of its history, its scope and application, as well as the lived experience of diversity. There exists a real tension between officials discourses of multiculturalism, and... More

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