Publications.

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Book
Gohdes, Anita R. Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence. Oxford University Press. published December 2023.

Articles

• Gohdes, Anita R. and Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld. Civilian Behavior on Social Media During Civil War. forthcoming American Journal of Political Science.
• Barberá, Pablo, Gohdes, Anita R., Iakhnis, Evgeniia & Thomas Zeitzoff, 'Distract and divert: How world leaders use social media during contentious politics', The International Journal of Press/Politics, 2024. (ungated version)
• Munzert, Simon, Ramirez-Ruiz, Sebastian, Çalı,  Başak, Stoetzer, Lukas, Gohdes, Anita R. and Will Lowe, 'Prioritization preferences for COVID-19 vaccination are consistent across five countries' Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2023.
• Henry, Colin, Gohdes, Anita R. & Cassy Dorff. 2022. 'Digital Footprints and Data Security Risks for Political Scientists', PS: Political Science and Politics. (ungated version)
• Stoetzer, Lukas F., Munzert, Simon, Lowe, Will, Çalı, Başak, Gohdes, Anita R., Helbling, Marc, Maxwell, Rahsaan & Richard Traunmüller. 2022. 'Citizen Preferences in a Fundamental Rights Dilemma: Evidence from a Triage Experiment in Five Countries', Political Science Research Methods.
• Carey, Sabine C & Anita R. Gohdes. 2021. 'Understanding journalist killings', Journal of Politics, 83(4): 1216–1228.
• Munzert, Simon, Peter Selb, Anita R. Gohdes, Lukas Stoetzer & Will Lowe. 2021. Tracking and Promoting the Usage of a COVID-19 Contact Tracing App. Nature Human Behaviour 5: 247–55.
• Gohdes, Anita R. 2020. 'Repression technology: Internet accessibility and state violence.'  American Journal of Political Science. 64(3): 488-503.
• Otto, Sabine, Adam Scharpf & Anita R. Gohdes. 2020 'Capturing Group Alignments: Capturing Group Alignments: Introducing the Government and Armed Actors Relations Dataset (GAARD)', Research and Politics.
• Brigden, Noelle K. & Anita R. Gohdes. 2020. 'The Politics of Data Access in Studying Violence across Methodological Boundaries: What We Can Learn from Each Other?'  International Studies Review. 22(2): 250–267.
• Gatto, Malu A. C., Gohdes, Anita R., Traber, Denise & Mariken van der Velden. 2020. "Selecting In or Selection Out? Gender gaps and political methodology in Europe." PS: Political Science & Politics. 53(1): 122-27.
• Gohdes, Anita R. 2018. 'Studying the Internet and Violent Conflict', Conflict Management and Peace Science, 35(1), 89-106.
• Birnir, Jóhanna K. &   Anita R. Gohdes. 2018. 'Voting in the Shadow of Violence: Electoral Politics and Conflict in Peru', Journal of Global Security Studies, 3(2): 181-197.
• Gohdes, Anita R. & Sabine C. Carey. 2017.  'Canaries in a Coal Mine: What the killings of journalists tell us about future repression.',  Journal of Peace Research, 54 (2):157-174. 
  • Runner-up for the Nils Petter Gleditsch JPR Article of the Year Award, 2017
• Gohdes, Anita R. 2017. 'Bringing perpetrator and victim identities into empirical ethnic conflict research', Ethnopolitics. 16(1): 28-33.
  • reprinted in: Ethnic Politics and Conflict/Violence: State of the Field and New Directions, Erika Forsberg, Jóhanna K. Birnir and Christian Davenport (eds), Routledge.
• Price, Megan E., Gohdes, Anita R. & Patrick Ball. 2015. 'Documents of war: Understanding the Syrian conflict', Significance, 12(2): 14–19. 
• Gohdes, Anita R. 2015. 'Pulling the Plug: Network Disruptions and Violence in Civil Conflict', Journal of Peace Research, 52(3): 352–367.
• Gohdes, Anita R. & Megan E. Price. 2013.'First Things First: Assessing Data Quality before Model Quality',  Journal of Conflict Resolution, 57(6): 1090-1108.
• Landman, Todd, Kernohan, David &  Anita R. Gohdes. 2012.'Relativizing Human Rights',  Journal of Human Rights, 11(4): 460-485.

Book Chapters

• Price, Megan & Anita R. Gohdes. 2020. 'The Promises and Pitfalls of Data Analysis for Accountability and Justice' (with Megan Price). In Radwan Ziadeh (ed): Accountability and Transitional Justice in Syria. Lexington Books.
• Manrique-Vallier, Daniel, Price,  Megan & Anita R. Gohdes. 2013.  ‘Multiple recapture techniques for estimating casualties in armed conflict’. In Taylor Seybolt, Baruch Fischhoff, and Jay Aronson (eds) Counting Civilian Casualties. An Introduction to Recording and Estimating Nonmilitary Deaths in Conflict, pp.77-93. New York: Oxford University Press.  [working paper] 
• Landman, Todd & Anita R. Gohdes. 2013.‘A matter of convenience: challenges of non-random data in analyzing human rights violations in Peru and Sierra Leone’, with Todd Landman. In Taylor Seybolt, Baruch Fischhoff, and Jay Aronson (eds) Counting Civilian Casualties. An Introduction to Recording and Estimating Nonmilitary Deaths in Conflict, pp. 165-82. New York: Oxford University Press. [html version here]

Statistical Reports

• Price, Megan, Anita Gohdes & Patrick Ball 'Technical Memo for Amnesty International Report on Deaths in
  Detention'. Report commissioned by Amnesty International. 18 Aug. 2016. 
• Price, Megan, Anita Gohdes & Patrick Ball 'Updated Statistical Analysis of Documentation of Killings in the Syrian Arab Republic'. Report commissioned by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. 22 Aug. 2014.
• Gohdes, Anita  ‘Different convenience samples, different stories: The case of Sierra Leone’, The Human Rights Data Analysis Group at Benetech, Palo Alto.

Blogs and other writing

• Gohdes, Anita R. Do digital technologies benefit governments or empower civil society actors?, Global Policy, 12 Apr 2023.
• ​Ritholtz, Samuel, Allison Koh, and Anita R. Gohdes. 'Fanning the Flames of Hate: The Transnational Diffusion of Online Anti-­LGBT+ Rhetoric and Offline Mobilisation', The Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) ­ Gender and Online Extremism Series, 29 Nov 2022.
• Gohdes, Anita R. and Zachary C. Steinert Threlkeld, 'Changing Sources: Social Media Activity During Civil War', POMEPS Studies 43: Digital Activism and Authoritarian Adaptation in the Middle East. 2021.
• Gohdes, Anita R, Sophie Dyer and Likhita Banerji: "In dozens of countries, governments rely on Internet shutdowns to hide repression", Washington Post - Monkey Cage, 4 Dec 2020.
• Gohdes, Anita R. 2018. "The Relationship between State and Corporate Censorship",  Comparative Politics Newsletter 28(2):31-37. 2018.
• Gohdes, Anita R. 2018. "Reflections on digital technologies, repression, and resistance", State Crime Journal 7(1). Spring 2018. 
• Birnir, Jóhanna K. & Anita Gohdes: "Understanding Insurgent Violence in the Context of Elections",  Political Violence @ a Glance Blog, 16 Apr 2018. 
• Gohdes, Anita: "Understanding Journalist Killings as Acts of Localized Repression", Mobilizing Ideas Symposium, 18 Oct 2017.
• Gohdes, Anita: "Critical debates on quantitative human rights measures: an incomplete reading list", Responsible Data Forum, 10 Apr 2017.
• Gohdes, Anita & Sabine Carey: "We examined more than 1,300 journalist killings between 2002 and 2013. Here’s what we learned.", Washington Post - Monkey Cage, 28 Mar 2017.
• Gohdes, Anita & Sabine Carey: "Fünf Gründe, warum wir den Tötungen von Medienschaffenden mehr Aufmerksamkeit schenken sollten", DeFacto Blog, 29 Mar 2017.
• Gohdes, Anita: Twitter & Co: Nicht nur Waffen der Demokratisierung, DeFacto Blog, 22 Sept 2016.
• Gohdes, Anita: Internet Shutdowns During Political Unrest Are Becoming Normal – And It Should Worry Us, Political Violence @ a Glance Blog, 16 Sept 2016. 
• Gohdes, Anita: From repressing digital content to repressing people, Internet Policy Review, 30 July 2016.
• Price, Megan, Anita Gohdes, Jay D. Aronson, and Christopher McNaboe: Re: Civilian deaths from weapons used in the Syrian conflict. BMJ: British Medical Journal, Rapid Response, vol. 351, Sept 2015. 
• Gohdes, Anita: Ausspähen und töten, Kulturaustausch: Ausgabe IV/2015, Ich und die Technik. 2015.
• Gohdes, Anita: When Internet access becomes a weapon,  Washington Post - Monkey Cage, 24 Feb. 2015.

• Price, Megan & Anita Gohdes: Searching for Trends: Analyzing Patterns in Conflict Violence Data, Political Violence @ a Glance Blog, 2 Apr. 2014.
• Gohdes, Anita & Sabine C. Carey: Protest and the Outsourcing of State Repression, Political Violence @ a Glance Blog, 26 Feb. 2014.

Book Reviews

• 2013:  Book Review: Insincere Commitments: Human Rights Treaties, Abusive States and Citizen Activism, by Heather Smith-Cannoy (2012), Journal of Peace Research, 50(2): 259-64.
• 2013:  Book Review: Campaigning for Justice: Human Rights Advocacy in Practice, by Jo Becker (2013), Journal of Peace Research, 50(4): 533-39.