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The illiberal challenge: (Re)conceptualizing political communication in times of normative instability

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posted on 2025-01-16, 15:00 authored by Vaclav StetkaVaclav Stetka, Sabina MiheljSabina Mihelj

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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School

  • Social Sciences and Humanities

Department

  • Communication and Media

Published in

Political Communication Report

Volume

30

Issue

Fall 2024

Pages

1 - 10

Publisher

International Communication Association

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Rights holder

© (Václav Štětka & Sabina Mihelj)

Publisher statement

This document is made available under a CC BY-NC-ND Licence (Attribution-Non Comercial-NoDerivatives). For more Information see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Acceptance date

2024-11-01

Publication date

2024-12-09

Copyright date

2024

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Vaclav Stetka. Deposit date: 14 January 2025

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