Emily Van Duyn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research explores why people talk (or do not talk) about politics and the role of digital media in facilitating a space for community and political discourse. She tackles these questions using diverse methodologies, including surveys, experiments, interviews, and ethnography.

Democracy Lives in Darkness is an insightful, original, and deeply important work of scholarship. Van Duyn dives much deeper than the headlines and the hashtags, demonstrating the ways that a polarized, digitally-mediated political landscape has altered classical forms of political participatory behavior. This is a book that sticks with you, and changes how you think about the Internet and political communities.

• Chapter 1: Democracy in DarknessChapter 2: Studying Political SecrecyChapter 3: Forming a Secret GroupChapter 4: Fearing the Other SideChapter 5: Negotiating Identity and SecrecyChapter 6: Political Incubation and InfrastructureChapter 7: 2020Chapter 8: Democracy Through DarknessReferencesAppendix A: Interviewee Pseudonyms and Interview DatesAppendix B: CWG MeetingsAppendix C: Survey DetailsAppendix D: Semi-Structured Interview Guide 2017Appendix E: Semi-Structured Interview Guide 2018 Appendix F: Semi-Structured Interview Guide 2020

Emily Van Duyn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research explores why people talk (or do not talk) about politics and the role of digital media in facilitating a space for community and political discourse. She tackles these questions using diverse methodologies, including surveys, experiments, interviews, and ethnography.

Democracy Lives in Darkness is an insightful, original, and deeply important work of scholarship. Van Duyn dives much deeper than the headlines and the hashtags, demonstrating the ways that a polarized, digitally-mediated political landscape has altered classical forms of political participatory behavior. This is a book that sticks with you, and changes how you think about the Internet and political communities.

• Chapter 1: Democracy in DarknessChapter 2: Studying Political SecrecyChapter 3: Forming a Secret GroupChapter 4: Fearing the Other SideChapter 5: Negotiating Identity and SecrecyChapter 6: Political Incubation and InfrastructureChapter 7: 2020Chapter 8: Democracy Through DarknessReferencesAppendix A: Interviewee Pseudonyms and Interview DatesAppendix B: CWG MeetingsAppendix C: Survey DetailsAppendix D: Semi-Structured Interview Guide 2017Appendix E: Semi-Structured Interview Guide 2018 Appendix F: Semi-Structured Interview Guide 2020

Emily Van Duyn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research explores why people talk (or do not talk) about politics and the role of digital media in facilitating a space for community and political discourse. She tackles these questions using diverse methodologies, including surveys, experiments, interviews, and ethnography.

Democracy Lives in Darkness is an insightful, original, and deeply important work of scholarship. Van Duyn dives much deeper than the headlines and the hashtags, demonstrating the ways that a polarized, digitally-mediated political landscape has altered classical forms of political participatory behavior. This is a book that sticks with you, and changes how you think about the Internet and political communities.

• Chapter 1: Democracy in DarknessChapter 2: Studying Political SecrecyChapter 3: Forming a Secret GroupChapter 4: Fearing the Other SideChapter 5: Negotiating Identity and SecrecyChapter 6: Political Incubation and InfrastructureChapter 7: 2020Chapter 8: Democracy Through DarknessReferencesAppendix A: Interviewee Pseudonyms and Interview DatesAppendix B: CWG MeetingsAppendix C: Survey DetailsAppendix D: Semi-Structured Interview Guide 2017Appendix E: Semi-Structured Interview Guide 2018 Appendix F: Semi-Structured Interview Guide 2020