Digital Carey Democracy and Civic Life

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[edit] Democracy, Communications, and Civic Life

James Carey argued that, for decades, newspapers and broadcast media helped to constitute the “shared political culture” of democracy in the United States. Prevailing political priorities and new communication technologies today, however, are unsettling the centrality of these fora. Is Carey’s view a relic of a bygone era? Is it relevant in today’s media environment?

• Moderator: Olivier Sylvain, Columbia University
• Craig Calhoun, New York University
• Jay T. Harris, University of Southern California
• Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania
• Michael Schudson, Columbia University