Ingenieros del alma: los informes sobre canción popular, ensayo y Ciencias Sociales de los servicios de inteligencia de la dictadura militar argentina sobre América Latina Engineer... by Patricia Funes

“…All the above led to an exhaustive work of exegesis and research on the production of Latin-American Social Sciences describing a double process: introducing professionalism in politics and political radicalization. The documents found in the Archive of the former Direction of Intelligence of the Police of the Province of Buenos Aires [DIPBA] -(containing reports of other services of intelligence) allow to infer the importance and the degree of "danger" that the dictatorships attributed to this production. …”
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Enlightenment, Revolution and the periodical press

“…The revolutionary era brought major innovations in the press although, as Maria Lúcia Pallares-Burke shows, older genres such as the ‘spectator’ were adapted to the new conditions. Political radicals like Jacques Roux (the focus of Eric Négrel’s study) and the German émigré journalists who had fled to France (examined in Susanne Lachenicht’s essay) owed their careers to the press. …”

The Godwinian letter: William Godwin's epistolary exchanges, 1778-1805 by Wood, J

“…These years of transition and experiment are recorded in his letters, and tell the story of his epistolary development – from the pupil of Rational Dissent, for whom correspondence is a tool used in the observance of one’s allegiance to the principles of religious nonconformity; to the political radical, who views the epistolary exchange as a space in which the terms of discourse itself can be radically reimagined; to the embattled public intellectual for whom the writing of carefully argued letters is a means of adjusting to a newly decentred position; and, finally, to the family man for whom the epistolary exchange becomes a shared and intimate space.…”

Online interventions for reducing hate speech and cyberhate: A systematic review by Steven Windisch, Susann Wiedlitzka, Ajima Olaghere, Elizabeth Jenaway

“…The enormous frequency of hate speech/cyberhate within online environments creates a sense of normalcy about hatred and the potential for acts of intergroup violence or political radicalization. While there is some evidence of effective interventions to counter hate speech through television, radio, youth conferences, and text messaging campaigns, interventions for online hate speech have only recently emerged. …”
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