Could The Kremlin Get An Award For Election Meddling?
Russia may deny it was involved, but some in the US advertising industry say the campaign was so ‘f***ing clever’ it deserves a prize
There’s a surprise entrant among the thousands competing for America’s premier Internet awards this year: Russia and the campaign it denies being involved in to interfere in the 2016 U.S. elections.
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Borders are liminal, notional spaces made more unstable by unparalleled migration, geopolitical ambition and the use of technology to transcend and, conversely, reinforce borders. Perhaps the most urgent contemporary question is how we now imagine and conceptualize boundaries. And, as a result, how we think about community.
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