Can Media Enhance Deliberative Democracy? Exploring Media Monitoring Capabilities in 14 EU-Countries

Epp Lauk and Peter Berglez
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Epp Lauk: Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia / Department of Public Communications, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
Peter Berglez: School of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences, Örebro University, Sweden

Media and Communication, 2024, vol. 12

Abstract: The editorial introduces the topic of this thematic issue, which is the important role of society’s media monitoring capabilities, i.e., to produce information about what media “do” to society, and more precisely for democratic development both the here and the now and in the longer term. The theoretical and methodological aspects of the thematic issue are presented according to the approach of an EU-funded project Mediadelcom, which aims to explain interconnections between the news media transformations and the risks and opportunities for deliberative communication. One of the stages of the project investigates media monitoring capabilities in different countries. The eight articles introduced in the editorial contribute to deepening the perspectives on the capabilities of media monitoring in the 21st century, and to understanding their function in detecting potential risks and opportunities for democratic public deliberation.

Keywords: deliberative communication; deliberative democracy; news media; media monitoring capabilities; risks and opportunities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.17645/mac.7888

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