Symposium on 'Democracy and Digital Disintegration' took place in late 2022

Organizers

Andreas Widholm, Stockholm University, (andreas.widholm@ims.su.se) 
Mattias Ekman, Stockholm University, (mattias.ekman@ims.su.se) 

Program 

08.45–09.00 Welcome to the symposium
Andreas Widholm & Mattias Ekman

09.00–10.30 Session 1: Online Publics and Counterpublics
Chair: Andreas Widholm

"Militant" Publics: A Study of RT France’s Audiences After the Channel’s Ban in the European Union
Gulnara Zakharova (Université Panthéon-Assas Paris 2)

Curators of Digital Counter publics: Mapping Cross-platform Alternative News Sharing Communities in Scandinavia
Jakob Bæk Kristensen, Tim Gottenborg Bruun Ramslanda, Frederik Møller Henriksena & Eva Mayerhöffera (Roskilde University)

The influence of reactionary populism on political discourse in Quebec
Michelle Stewart, Samuel Laperle, Vicky Girard (Université du Québec à Montréal) & Maxime Bérubé (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)

The role of alternative media during the Canadian "Freedom Convoy" 2022
Kristoffer Holt (Linnæus University)

Behind a pseudonym: Anti-MeToo counter publics on the Swedish online forum Flashback
Karin Hansson (Södertörn University), Malin Sveningsson (University of Gothenburg) & Hillevi Ganetz (Stockholm University)

10.30–10.55 Coffee break

10.55–12.25 Session 2: Political Communication in a Polarized Media Landscape
Chair: Anna Roosvall (Stockholm University)

From passive presence to professional propaganda: Exploring Swedish parties' social media election campaign strategies 2010–2022
Niklas Bolin (Mid Sweden University), Marie Grusell (University of Gothenburg) & Lars Nord (Mid Sweden University)

Who's afraid of populism? The use of populist communication by parties and politicians on Facebook and Instagram during the Norwegian election campaign 2021
Melanie Magin (NTNU, Trondheim), Anders Olof Larsson (Kristiania University College), Hedvig Tønnesen (NTNU, Trondheim) & Eli Skogerbø (University of Oslo)

Same people, different bubbles: Contextual homophily and polarization among Scandinavians tweeting about U.S. elections
Jessica Yarin Robinson (University of Oslo)

Marketing the vax meme: The influence of emotions on social media engagement with vaccination memes
Sophie Holzner & Katherine Guertler (OTH Regensburg)

A new party press? Hyper-partisan news in the 2022 Swedish election campaign
Mattias Ekman & Andreas Widholm (Stockholm University)

12.25–13.25 Lunch

13.25–14.55 Session 3: Democracy, Deliberation and Young Citizens
Chair: Mattias Ekman (Stockholm University)

Documenting the Politics of Media Scarce Communities
Greg Elmer (Toronto Metropolitan University) & Steve Neville (York University)

Deliberation and journalism: Applying deliberative norms to handle online incivility.
Klas Backholm, Heini Ruohonen & Kim Strandberg (Åbo Akademi University)

Sustainable democracy: Young Danes, information, and democratic engagement in digital society
Gitte Stald (IT University of Copenhagen)

Political Polarization, Self-Censorship and Divergent Perceptions of Civility Among Norwegian Youth
Lukas Mozdeika (Oslo Metropolitan University)

Young Citizens and the Quality of news: Evaluating attention, credence and emotional reactions in relation to quality assessments
Ari Nykvist, Kristoffer Holt, Mahitab Ezz El Din, Mats Wahlberg & Peter Dahlén, (Linnæus University)

14.55–15.15 Coffee break

15.15–16.45 Session 4: Journalism, Truth-seeking and Fact-checking
Chair: Rebecca Bengtsson Lundin (Stockholm University)

Between Facts and Clicks: informative and misinformative narrative strategies in journalism
Beate Schirrmacher (Linnæus University)

The multidimensional challenges of fact-checking practices in the Nordic countries
Laurence Dierickx (Université libre de Bruxelles) & Carl-Gustav Lindén (University of Bergen)

Credibility is everything: Newsroom routines and journalists' perceptions of their role in verifying images in the Ukraine-war coverage
Maria Nilsson (Stockholm University)

Enduring Elites in Quoted Sources: Curation of the News Flow in Finnish Media from 1999 to 2018
Olli Seuri (Tampere University), Anu Koivunen (University of Turku,) & Eetu Mäkelä (University of Helsinki)

Manifestation of global network journalism in social media – a pilot study
Walid Al-Saqaf, Urban Larssen & Malin Picha Edwardsson (Södertörn University)

16.45–17.00 Summary and short information from Nordicom
Andreas Widholm, Mattias Ekman & Johannes Bjerling (Nordicom)

Contact 

The symposium is open to all interested scholars. Interested? Please register your attendance with Andreas Widholm andreas.widholm@ims.su.se or Mattias Ekman mattias.ekman@ims.su.se.