[ecrea] CfP: “Digital Media, Political Polarization and Challenges to Democracy”

Call for Papers:

DIGITAL MEDIA, POLITICAL POLARIZATION AND CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY

An International Symposium, organized by the Institute for Comparative 
Media and Communication Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and 
the Alpen-Adria University (Maren Beaufort, Josef Seethaler) and the 
Centre for Political Youth Culture and Communication, Department of 
Sociology, University of York (Brian D. Loader)

21-22 September 2017 / Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

Public Lecture:

W. Lance Bennett (Department of Political Science, University of Washington)

Keynote Speakers:

Michael X. Delli-Carpini (Annenberg School of Communication, University 
of Pennsylvania)

Jörg Matthes (Department of Communication, University of Vienna)

Barbara Pfetsch (Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Free 
University of Berlin)

The Viennese conference intends to bring together experts from the 
fields of media and communication studies, politics and linguistics to 
explore the role of the media in today’s polarized social climate, 
fueled by growing political distrust, confusion, and conflict, which 
seem to shake the democratic system to its foundations. The symposium 
aims at discussing not only the causes and developments that led to the 
current state of society, but also proposals for citizens, journalists 
and politicians for how to manage the current move away from the 
established structures of representative democracy - with their 
group-based identities and mainstream issues - towards a wider 
repertoire of personalized political experience and individually 
motivated concerns in a digitally networked society. Special emphasis 
will be paid to comparative research across time and space.

For more information see: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/cmc/digital-media __

Please send a PDF of your proposal (8,000 characters including spaces)to 
(cmc /at/ oeaw.ac.at) <mailto:(cmc /at/ oeaw.ac.at)>no later than April 7, 2017.


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