Democracy@Risk Launch Event

Digital Futures is a highly interdisciplinary network which operates across the whole range of the University’s digital research.The aim of Digital Futures is to present a coherent overview of our digital research activity to external stakeholders and bring together our research communities to explore new research areas and address strategic opportunities.We group our activity around themes that encapsulate our broad research capabilities and the challenges to which these can be applied. These themes do not operate as self-contained entities; however, there is considerable synergy and overlap between them, and many of our academics are involved in a number of capability and challenge themes.

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A cross-theme Digital Futures event between Citizens & Government and Digital Trust & Security themes.

<h3>Overview</h3>In the wake of the digital surge caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, citizens are spending a record proportion of their day on their digital devices, whilst the level of public dissatisfaction with democracy is at its highest since the mid-1990s. It seems that in this twenty-first century, the demos have never been more online, and democracy has never felt more at risk.The Democracy@Risk report summarises the key findings of a multidisciplinary literature review conducted by the Democracy@Risk Project at the University of Manchester in 2020. Drawing on existing research and scholarship, it sheds further light on digital political micro-targeting and online misinformation as two potential sources of harm for democracy in the digital age, and assesses the challenges relating to digital information literacy as one of the most frequently proposed solutions to the problems generated by these phenomena.This event will bring together expertise from across the University of Manchester&#x27;s <a href="http://www.digitalfutures.manchester.ac.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Digital Futures</a> network to discuss the key challenges assessed in this report, and look at how citizens might be better empowered to deal with them.For security reasons, we will share Zoom details 24 hours before the event.<h3>Event structure:</h3>12:00: Overview of report - Ariadna Tsenina12.15: Panel discussion on the report recommendation areas•	Digital Political Micro targeting – Kate Dommett•	Online Misinformation – Martin Innes•	Digital Information Literacy – Kari Kivinen13:00: Q&amp;A with panel members and audience<h3>Speakers:</h3>Professor Martin Innes, Director of Cardiff University Crime and Security Research Institute; Director of Universities&#x27; Police Science InstituteDr Kate Dommett, Senior Lecturer in the Public Understanding of Politics, University of SheffieldDr Kari Kavinen, Education Outreach Expert, EUIPO ObservatoryDr Ariadna Tsenina, Research Associate, University of Manchester<h3>Digital Futures:</h3><a href="http://www.digitalfutures.manchester.ac.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Digital Futures</a> is a highly interdisciplinary network which operates across the whole range of the University’s digital research.This is a cross-theme Digital Futures event between <a href="http://www.digitalfutures.manchester.ac.uk/what-we-do/societal-challenges/citizens-government/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Citizens &amp; Government</a> and <a href="http://www.digitalfutures.manchester.ac.uk/what-we-do/cross-cutting-capabilities/digital-trust-security/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Digital Trust &amp; Security</a> themes.To find out more about activity in Digital Futures, <a href="https://manchester.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=ad639f09ca77836def20e7f13&amp;id=f04db72adc" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">sign up to the Digital Futures newsletter here.</a>

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