Lance Bennett
Lance Bennett is Emeritus Professor of Communication and Political Science at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Journalism, Media & Democracy https://cjmd.com.uw.edu/
Bennett has published and lectured on media and information systems in civic life. His research topics include: theories of civic network organization; press-government relations; communication in the organization of national and transnational political movements; changing norms of citizenship and civic engagement and the origins and effects of disinformation in democracies.
He has received the Ithiel de Sola Pool Lectureship and the Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award from the American Political Science Association; Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa from Uppsala University; the Olof Palme Visiting Professorship in Sweden; and a National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar career award.
Publications include:
The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics (with Alexandra Segerberg, Cambridge University Press).
The Disinformation Age: Politics, Technology and Disruptive Communication in the United States (co-edited with Steven Livingston, Cambrudge University Press). Available for free download here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/disinformation-age/1F4751119C7C4693E514C249E0F0F997
Bennett has published and lectured on media and information systems in civic life. His research topics include: theories of civic network organization; press-government relations; communication in the organization of national and transnational political movements; changing norms of citizenship and civic engagement and the origins and effects of disinformation in democracies.
He has received the Ithiel de Sola Pool Lectureship and the Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award from the American Political Science Association; Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa from Uppsala University; the Olof Palme Visiting Professorship in Sweden; and a National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar career award.
Publications include:
The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics (with Alexandra Segerberg, Cambridge University Press).
The Disinformation Age: Politics, Technology and Disruptive Communication in the United States (co-edited with Steven Livingston, Cambrudge University Press). Available for free download here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/disinformation-age/1F4751119C7C4693E514C249E0F0F997
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minorities, press freedoms, and the rule of law – challenge the basic
norms and values upon which institutional legitimacy and political
stability depend. How did we get here? The Disinformation Age
assembles a remarkable group of historians, political scientists, and
communication scholars to examine the historical and political origins
of the post-fact information era, focusing on the United States but with
lessons for other democracies. Bennett and Livingston frame the book
by examining decades-long efforts by political and business interests to
undermine authoritative institutions, including parties, elections, public
agencies, science, independent journalism, and civil society groups. The
other distinguished scholars explore the historical origins and workings
of disinformation, along with policy challenges and the role of the
legacy press in improving public communication. This title is also
available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.