Event details
How are digital platforms shaping political identity, trust, and movements?
Forget everything you think you know about social media and politics. While traditional commentary fixates on noise, rage-bait, and outrage algorithms, the real story unfolds beneath the surface.
Beyond Polarization is a landmark two-day symposium at Yale University uniting academic visionaries, viral creators, investigative journalists, global organizers, and political strategists. Together, we are stepping past tired "good vs. bad" debates to decode how digital influence, culture, and collective political power are actually made today.
This event is co-hosted by Columbia World Projects and the Center for Applied Research on Democracy (CARD) at Yale University.
Speakers
- Anya Schiffrin, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
- Nika Kovač, 8th of March Institute
- Alexandra Braxton, Digital Strategist
- Judith Nwandu, The Shade Room
- Victoria Alexander-Thompson, PhD and Content Creator
- Emily Jashinsky, After Party with Emily Jashinsky
- Marshall Kosloff, The Realignment Podcast
- Danielle Lee Tomson, University of Washington
- Adam Aleksic, Content Creator
- Alex Beightol, Content Creator
- Christina Brown, Content Creator
- Elliot Edsall, University of Minnesota
- Kate Glavan, Content Creator
- Arun Chaudhary, Political Strategist
- Felipe Heusser, Minuto 90
- Jeremy Clancy, Green Party of England and Wales
- Anne Thompson, M+R
- Dustin Guastella, Center for Working-Class Politics
- Sean Morrow, More Perfect Union
- Tara McGowan, Good Information