Monday, February 21, 2022 6pm to 7:30pm
About this Event
The Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics presents a lecture on "Mediated Democracy: Politics, the News, and Citizenship in the 21st Century," at 6 p.m. on Feb. 21.
Elections are a time when democratic values and institutional trust can be reinforced. However, the last several years, animated by misinformation and increasing polarization, have seen confidence in democratic values diminish. Relying on panel survey data, survey experiments, qualitative interviews and computational analyses, we review a program of research that examines how voters’ conceptions of the news media, their perceptions about their fellow citizens, and the ways in which their media use patterns interact with the content of information flow are related to troubling changes in democratic attitudes and values.
Michael W. Wagner, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he directs the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal.
Mallory Perryman, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of broadcast journalism at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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