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Threats to Democracies: A Transatlantic Workshop on Media and the 2024 Elections
October 24 @ 10:00 am - October 25 @ 6:30 pm
Join us for “Threats to Democracies: A Transatlantic Workshop on Media and the 2024 Elections,” a two-day event on October 23rd & 24th hosted by the UNC Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life, in partnership with UNC Global Affairs, Thomas Mann House Los Angeles, and the UNC Center for European Studies, and co-sponsored by the UNC School of Information and Library Science. This event will bring together renowned experts to discuss the critical challenges to democracies in the U.S. and Europe, with a particular focus on media, technology, and election dynamics. Featuring four workshop panels, culminating in a fireside chat, you will not want to miss this event.
Please note: The workshop is by invitation only, but we welcome all to attend the Fireside Chat on Thursday at 5pm! RSVP for the Fireside Chat here:
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
10:00 AM – 11:45 AM | Media, Technological Change, and Democratic Threats
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.
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM | Lunch Break
1:30 PM – 3:15 PM | Transatlantic Narratives of Race, Ethnicity, Religion, and Immigration
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
Thursday, October 24, 2024
10:00 AM – 11:45 AM | Media and Authoritarianism, Anti-Democratic Parties, Fascism, and the Far Right
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
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM | Lunch
1:30 PM – 3:15 PM | Media and Polarization
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
5:00-6:30 pm | Fireside Chat
Freedom Forum Conference Center, Carroll Hall.
More details to come soon.