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...become a significant liability. For Trump, the equivalent is perhaps a major terrorist attack on home soil, or a huge scandal to eclipse the Clinton campaign. Even the debates, not widely expected to help Trump’s chances, provide a potential for some upset. President Obama’s shaky performance in his first debate against Mitt Romney in 2012 was a textbook example....

...become highly methodologically creative, inventing a swathe of new practical ways of knowing about social life. Yet we at CCIG would argue that researchers must go beyond meeting the intensified demand for new methods. Methods are important because what we know is changed by how we know it. Furthermore, the reasons why someone uses a particular method are linked to their...

...become major sources of news for many internet users. They sometimes inform what’s reported in the ‘traditional’ media. Jokes aside, government violations of electoral procedures or other human rights violations can be exposed online. Social media has played a role in empowering civil society and helps opposition movements to organise in some of Africa’s most...