GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH ROUNDTABLE

Technology, Society, Politics: The Changing Information Environment
An Informal Research Roundtable with Lance Bennett, University of Washington

Thursday, April 8, 2010
10am - 11:30am
Rm. LI036 Wells Library (SLIS seminar room)

Co-sponsored by Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics and Colloquium on Political Communication Research

The roundtable is designed to discuss the "provocative arguments" (Holbert et al., 2010, p. 15) regarding “fundamental changes in society and communication technologies that are affecting the composition of audiences, the delivery of information, and the experience of politics itself…the growing disjuncture between the prevailing research strategies and the sociotechnological context of political communication” (Bennett & Iyengar, 2008, p. 707).

The exchanges between Bennett and Iyengar and Holbert and colleagues are available from the Wells Library database for the Journal of Communication: -Bennett, W. L., & Iyengar, S. (2008).
A new era of minimal effects?
The changing foundations of political communication. Journal of Communication, 58, 707-731. -Holbert, R. L., Garrett, R. K., & Gleason, L. S. (2010).
A new era of minimal effects? A response to Bennett and Iyengar.
Journal of Communication, 60, 15-34. -Bennett, W. L., & Iyengar, S. (2010).
The shifting foundations of political communication: Responding to a defense of the media effects paradigm. Journal of Communication, 60, 35-39.