The illiberal challenge: (Re)conceptualizing political communication in times of normative instability
Political communication scholarship has always had a normative orientation; from its very beginnings as a distinct field, it was closely tied to the political ideals and norms of democratic politics, and its research agenda was guided by the normative challenges faced by modern democracies, ranging from political participation to disinformation and polarization (cf. Knüpfer et al., 2024). For a long time, these normative underpinnings were taken for granted; while scholars may have disagreed over the relative merits of different models of democratic communication, or questioned the extent to which specific communication actors, structures and processes fulfilled democratic obligations, they shared a belief in democratic ideals as something worth defending. [...]
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The Illiberal Turn? News Consumption, Polarization and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
Economic and Social Research Council
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Political Communication ReportVolume
30Issue
Fall 2024Pages
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International Communication AssociationVersion
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