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Media & Democracy at ICA 2019

The Media & Democracy program was thrilled to be at the International Communication Association (ICA) 2019 annual meeting in Washington, DC. As part of the ICA proceedings, we sponsored an ICA theme panel entitled "A Modern History of the Disinformation Age" at the Washington Hilton, held on May 25. The panelists presented research from our December 2018 workshop of the same name. We also co-hosted an SSRC reception on May 28, 2019 at Jack Rose Dining Saloon in collaboration with the Social Data Initiative. Finally, we were proud to co-sponsor "The Rise of Platforms: Individual, Institutional, and Governance Questions for Communication Research," an ICA post-conference that …

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Alternatives to Incarceration in Latin America and the Caribbean

Drug laws and the region’s untenable prison crisis are at the center of the drug policy debate in Latin America and the Caribbean. The incarceration of low-level drug offenders for exceptionally long sentences has left the region’s prisons bursting at the seams; the impact is not only felt by those incarcerated, but also by their families and communities. Cutting edge research by the Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho (Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law, CEDD) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) sheds new light on the problem and efforts to address it through alternatives to incarceration. The latest investigation …

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