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Hilde Van den Bulck, PhD, a professor and department head of Communications in the College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in a May 18 The Atlantic article about online fandom and how it relates to the ongoing Virginia civil defamation trial between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp.
On one side it is a tale of how post-Soviet Russia is trying to reclaim its influence in Central and Eastern Europe and in the process seeking to weaken the EU and also divert domestic eyes away from problems at home. From the US side, there was during the Donald Trump era an attempt to challenge the pro-EU status quo in the CEE region and in parts of Western Europe. “A key part of [Trump advisor] Steve Bannon’s plan was to encourage European countries to form an alliance in opposition to the EU. He said Russia would be a key ally,” Caroline Orr Bueno, a behavioural scientist and journa...