Events | Threats to Democracies – Media and the 2024 Elections in Transatlantic Perspective | Workshop
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | October 23, 2024 – October 24, 2024
Threats to Democracies – Media and the 2024 Elections in Transatlantic Perspective
On October 23 & 24, the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hosting the two-day event Threats to Democracies: A Transatlantic Workshop on Media and the 2024 Elections, 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.
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Please note: The workshop is by invitation only, but all are welcome to attend the Fireside Chat on Thursday at 5pm. Find more information here.
Program
Wednesday, October 23, 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
Thursday, October 24, 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.