From mobilizing masses to monitoring rebels, information and communication technologies (ICT) are transforming …

between countries, this article provides a test of the second mechanism by analyzing communication flows. The article shows … that the occurrence of ethnic conflict in a country’s main communication partners significantly increases the probability …

Growing evidence indicates that the diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) can substantially … that there are important differences between centralized ‘mass’ communication technologies – such as radios – that … foster vertical linkages between state and society, and decentralized ‘social’ communication technologies – such as …

Modern communication technology is emerging rapidly, with tremendous social implications. The key innovations … empirical research on the relationship between communication technology and political conflict and violence. There are different … groups. A first group of articles looks at the effects of ‘old’ communication technologies with state-of-the-art methods …