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Title:'AI-human romance,' or, The deconstruction of love : a Baudrillardian discourse analysis of hyperreality Author(s):GJERDE, Lars Erik
Date:2025Citation:Digital studies / Le champ numerique, 2025, Vol. 15, No. 1, OnlineOnlyType:ArticleAbstract:The digital revolution has partly disembodied humanity, as evermore time and effort are spent on cyberspace, where virtual simulations of the real increasingly preoccupy our minds. The AI is the last simulator joining the ...
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Title:Who is left behind? : economic status loss and populist radical right voting Author(s):CICCOLINI, Giuseppe
Date:2025Citation:Perspectives on politics, 2025, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:Citizens’ resentment at losing out to the rest of society is commonly regarded as the foundation of the demand for the populist radical right (PRR). Yet whether this motive has an objective economic basis remains disputed. ...
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Title:Political deepfakes are as credible as other fake media and (sometimes) real media Author(s):BARARI, Soubhik; LUCAS, Christopher; MUNGER, Kevin
Date:2025Citation:The journal of politics, 2025, Vol. 87, No. 2, pp. 510-526Type:ArticleAbstract:There is widespread concern that political “deepfakes”—fabricated videos synthesized by deep learning—pose an epistemic threat to democracy as a uniquely credible form of misinformation. To test this hypothesis, we created ...
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Title:Enough? Author(s):DIMMERY, Drew; MUNGER, Kevin
Date:2025Citation:Observational studies, 2025, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 17-26Type:ArticleAbstract:We respond to Aronow et al. (2025)’s paper arguing that randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are “enough,” while nonparametric identification in observational studies is not. We agree with their position with respect to ...
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Title:The social-origins gap in labour market outcomes : compensatory and boosting advantages using a micro-class approach Author(s):BERNARDI, Fabrizio
; GIL-HERNÁNDEZ, Carlos J.
Date:2020Citation:European sociological review, 2020, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 32-48Type:ArticleAbstract:Recent studies document a social-origins gap or direct effect of social origin (DESO) on labour market outcomes over and above respondents’ education, challenging the idea that post-industrial societies are education-based ...