Digital media, democracy and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe

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Authors

KOC-MICHALSKA Karolina LILLEKER Darren BADEN Christian GUZEK Damian BENE Marton DOROSHENKO Larissa GREGOR Miloš SCORIC Marko

Year of publication 2024
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Journal of Information Technology & Politics
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Faculty of Social Studies

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Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2023.2257012
Keywords Digital democracy; Central and Eastern Europe (CEE); social media; citizenship; political communication; affordances
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Description CEE countries faced significant political, economic, social, and technological transformations over the last four decades. Democratic processes, after relative stabilization, tremble again around polarizing values, populist leaders, or nationalistic ideologies. Online communication, especially social media platforms, play a vital role in shaping how citizens interact with the state, political actors, media, and other citizens. The collection of manuscripts focuses on some of the challenges democratic institutions in the region face, in transforming and sustaining civil society and attempts to capture how the digital media environments mitigate or exacerbate those challenges. Included manuscripts focus on the role that online platforms play in the satisfaction with democracy in the CEE region, the interactions between journalists and political actors, the strategic media coverage of elections, affective polarization and political antagonism, and discursive attempts to discourage young people from civic engagement.
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