Gabriele Cosentino – Media, Culture & Global Politics

Gabriele Cosentino

Media, Culture & Global Politics

Fascism in Football: How the Beautiful Game Turned Ugly

February 9, 2026
An Anniversary and a Reckoning: 10 Years after the Murder of Giulio Regeni in Cairo

February 4, 2026
TikTok in Egypt: Where Rich and Poor Meet – and the State Watches Everything

May 7, 2025
Donald Trump and the Art of Bending Reality

February 7, 2025
Fact, Fiction and the Post-Truth Crisis: Interview with AUC Today

February 2, 2025
What the Stabbing of a Nobel Prize-Winning Novelist Tells Us About Power in Egypt

December 6, 2024
The Debate on the Origins of Covid-19: A Geopolitical Perspective

October 12, 2024
Democratic Chaos: QAnon and the Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories

May 15, 2023
‘You Can’t Arrest a Virus’: The Freedom of Expression Crisis within Egypt’s Response to COVID-19

June 13, 2021
From Pizzagate to the Great Replacement: The Globalization of Conspiracy Theories

June 16, 2020
Polarize and Conquer: Russian Influence Operations in the United States

May 14, 2020
Tribal Politics: The Disruptive Effects of Social Media in the Global South

May 14, 2020
Post-truth Politics in Syria: ‘Rumor Bombs’ on the White Helmets

March 17, 2020
Local Identities Through Global Television Formats in China and India: Super Girl and Indian Idol 3

November 17, 2016
L’Isola dei Famosi: Minority Politics in Italy via Reality Television

December 17, 2015
The Comical Inquisition: Striscia la Notizia and the Politics of Fake News on Italian Television

October 19, 2012
Silvio Berlusconi. One Man Brand.

October 19, 2010

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