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Governing the Digital Sphere: Elites and Information Control

Elites
Social Media
Public Opinion
P267
Elena Semenova
Würzburg Julius-Maximilians University

Abstract

The governance of digital spaces has become a defining challenge for political regimes across the spectrum. This panel examines how democracies and autocracies alike seek to regulate, control, and instrumentalize the flow of online information.

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