At the 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association in Denver, USA, Josef Seethaler and Maren Beaufort won a Top Paper Award of the Communication, Law & Policy Devision for their paper „Bringing Values Back in: An Analytical Model for Examining the Potential of National Media Laws and Regulations to Promote Democracy“.

The Media, Politics & Democracy research group was represented with four further presentations at this largest communications science conference:

Maren Beaufort: Different Notions of Democracy as Determinants of Participation Behaviour and Media Use: Theoretical Considerations, Correlations and Methodological Approach

Maren Beaufort, Beata Klimkiewicz & Josef Seethaler:  Models of Democracy, Participation Behaviour and Media Use: A Methodological Approach

Gabriele Melischek & Josef Seethaler: Attribution of Responsibility in Austrian Media Coverage of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Andreas Schulz-Tomancok, Eva Asboth, Ernest Thaqi & Josef Seethaler: Diversity Is Not a Problem? A Comparative Analysis of the Journalistic Representation of Cultural, Social, and Political Diversity in Different Media Genres in Germany and Austria

There was also a dedicated MeDeMAP panel on „Mapping Platforms and European Audiences for Future Democracies“.