Communicating Civic Engagement in Europe and the United States
May 19-20, 2000 • University of Washington
Conference Organizer
Lance Bennett
Director, The Center for Communication and Civic Engagement
University of Washington
Participants and Papers
Bruce Bimber,
University of California, Santa Barbara
Information, Technology, and the Organization
of Political Engagement in the US
Bette Jean Bullert,
Seattle University
Progressive Public Relations, Sweatshops
and the Net
Peter Dahlgren,
Lund University
Internet and the Democratization
of Civic Culture
Michael X. Delli
Carpini, Pew Charitable Trusts
Gen.com: Youth Civic Engagement and
the New Information Environment
David Domke,
University of Washington
Elite Messages: The Role of Race as
a Source Cue
Nina Eliasoph,
University of Wisconsin
Immeasurable Pleasures and Measurable
Injustices: Communicating a Politics of Care
John Gastil,
University of Washington
Is Face-to-Face Citizen Deliberation
a Luxury or a Necessity for Democracy?
Susan Herbst,
Northwestern University
Strategic communication and notions
of citizenship in the American women's movement, 1960-1980
Sabine Lang,
Free University Berlin
NGOs in the German Local Public: Democratizing
Governance or Reshaping Corporatism?
Regina G. Lawrence,
Portland State University and Lance
Bennett, University of Washington
Civic Engagement in the Era of Big
Stories
Paolo Mancini,
University of Perugia
How to Combine media Commercialization
and Party Affiliation: Is There a Place for Citizenship?
Gianpietro Mazzoleni,
University of Genoa
A return to civic and political engagement
prompted by personalized political leadership?
Diana Mutz,
Ohio State University
Implications of the Information Environment
for Political Participation
Margaret Scammell,
London School of Economics
Internet and civic engagement: Age
of the citizen-consumer
Philip Schlesinger,
University of Sterling and University of Oslo
The Reinvention of Scotland?
Adam F. Simon
and Michael Xenos,
University of Washington
Media Framing and Effective Public
Deliberation
David Swanson,
University of Illinois
The Homologous Evolution of Political
Communication and Civic Engagement:Good News, Bad News, and No News
