Events | Threats to Democracies – Media and the 2024 Elections in Transatlantic Perspective | Workshop
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 23. Oktober 2024 – 24. Oktober 2024
Threats to Democracies – Media and the 2024 Elections in Transatlantic Perspective
Vom 23. bis 24. Oktober veranstaltet das Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life der University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill die zweitägige Veranstaltung Threats to Democracies: A Transatlantic Workshop on Media and the 2024 Elections in Zusammenarbeit mit UNC Global Affairs, Thomas Mann House Los Angeles und dem UNC Center for European Studies und unter Mitwirkung der UNC School of Information and Library Science. Zur Veranstaltung mit dem Fokus auf Medien, Technologie und Wahlen kommen renommierte Expert*innen zusammen, um kritische Herausforderungen für die Demokratien in den USA und Europa zu erörtern.
*Der Workshop findet in englischer Sprache statt.*
Das vollständige Programm finden Sie weiter unten.
Bitte beachten Sie: Der Workshop findet in geschlossenem Rahmen statt. Für den offenen Fireside Chat am Donnerstag um 17 Uhr finden Sie hier mehr Informationen.
Programm
Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2024
This panel explores the new challenges democracies on both sides of the Atlantic face from media and technological changes, with an emphasis on elections.
Moderator:
Daniel Kreiss, Principal Investigator, CITAP & Professor, UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media
Panelists:
Francesca Tripodi, Principal Investigator, CITAP & Associate Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science
Guido Zurstiege, Professor for Media Studies, University of Tübingen
Tobias Wilke, Assistant Professor of German, UNC Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures
Gregor Asmolov, Lecturer in Digital Entrepreneurship and Marketing, King's College London
Jianing Li, Assistant Professor of Communication, Rutgers University Department of Communication.
This panel focuses on how social cleavages around race, ethnicity, religion, and immigration are weaponized in political narratives and elections.
Moderator:
Ulrike Klinger, Professor for Digital Democracy, European New School of Digital Studies
Panelists:
Meredith Clark, Principal Investigator, CITAP & Associate Professor, UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media
Jen Schradie, Associate Professor, Center for Research on Social Inequalities, Sciences Po
Priscilla Layne, Director of the UNC Center for European Studies & Professor of German, UNC Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures
Sarah J. Jackson, Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania & Co-Director, Media, Inequality & Change Center
Frank Baumgartner, Professor of Political Science, UNC Department of Political Science
Robert Jenkins, Teaching Professor, UNC Department of Political Science
Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 2024
This panel examines the resurgence of authoritarianism and anti-democratic politics, with a focus on how media and technology facilitate these trends.
Moderator:
Ulrike Klinger, Professor for Digital Democracy, European New School of Digital Studies
Panelists:
Alice Marwick, Director of Research, Data & Society
Johannes Gerschweski, Research Fellow, Department of Global Governance, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Jakob Norberg, Professor of German Studies, Duke University
Christiane Lemke, Emerita Professor of Political Science and International Relations, UNC Department of Political Science
Annett Heft, Research Project Lead, Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
This panel addresses the role of media in increasing polarization, disinformation, and division during election campaigns.
Moderator:
Daniel Kreiss, Principal Investigator, CITAP & Professor, UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media
Panelists:
Shannon McGregor, Principal Investigator, CITAP & Associate Professor, UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media
Frank Esser, Professor of International & Comparative Media Research, Universität Zürich.
Pola Lehmann, Research Fellow, Center for Civil Society Research, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Stanislav Shvabrin, Russian Program Director & Associate Professor of Russian, UNC Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures
Radik Lapushin, Associate Professor of Russian Literature, UNC Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures
Chad Bryant, Professor, UNC Department of History
Freedom Forum Conference Center, Carroll Hall.
More details to come soon.