/ Extremism Content for UC 海角原创 en /news/book-combat-extremism-home <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>In front of a Mondavi Center crowd last week, author Cynthia Miller-Idriss identified two recent moments 鈥� the mid-2000s in Germany and the global rise of social media in the later 2010s 鈥� as inflection points for new far-right attempts at youth radicalization and recruitment.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> February 13, 2024 - 9:00am Cody Kitaura /news/book-combat-extremism-home /news/new-episode-backdrop-podcast-released-1 <p>Conventional wisdom has held that as people are exposed to more partisan news, they become more polarized. But a new study finds that鈥檚 not so.&nbsp;On this month鈥檚 episode of <em>The Backdrop</em>, <strong><a href="https://communication.ucdavis.edu/people/mwojcie1">Magdalena Wojcieszak</a></strong> discusses a couple of new studies she has co-authored that found no correlation between media exposure and political polarization.</p> February 25, 2021 - 11:35am Soterios J Johnson /news/new-episode-backdrop-podcast-released-1