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CCCE PhD Candidate Yunkang Yang’s research highlights evolving media sphere through analysis of Ford/Kavanaugh Hearing
PhD Candidate Yunkang Kang joined colleagues from the University of Canberra, Purdue University, and the University of Texas at the American Political Science Association Conference in Boston for a panel on "Fake News and Trust in [...]
CCCE Director Lance Bennett appointed Senior Fellow at Weizenbaum Institute
Lance Bennett has been appointed Senior Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (the German Internet Institute) in Berlin. He is working with the research group on “Digitalization and the Transnational Public Sphere” [...]
CCCE Director Lance Bennett joins the Advisory Committee of the Social Science Research Council program on Media & Democracy
CCCE Director Lance Bennett has joined the Advisory Committee of the Social Science Research Council program on Media & Democracy. This program seeks to understand the evolving relationship between media, technology, and democratic life. By [...]
Powers and Russell to co-edit Social Media & Society: 2K
CCCE Co-Directors Matt Powers and Adrienne Russell to edit section of journal Social Media & Society entitled 2K. It will offer a space for short essays, and will invite lively and timely conversation around the [...]
Matt Powers releases new book
CCCE Associate Director Matt Powers releases new book. First in a new Reuters International book series, Powers discusses the way in which NGOs increasingly are taking on journalistic functions, shaping-and sometimes directly producing-international news. How [...]
Symposium: The Shifting Landscape of Public Communication
CCCE, in coordination with the UW Department of Communication and the Simpson Center for the Humanities, hosted a highly successful symposium exploring the “big questions” for scholars concerned with our contemporary media landscape. Entitled “The [...]
UW Sustainability Action Network Gets Green Light
Through a grant awarded by the Campus Sustainability Fund (CSF), an exciting new student-led initiative for a campus wide sustainability action network (UW-SAN) is ready to launch its first year operations. Described as a resource [...]
The American Global Challenge: Aligning Economy, Democracy and Environment in the 21st Century.
Public Lecture Series: January 17: System Breakdown: Economy and Democracy in Crisis January 31: Can Capitalism Be Fixed? February 7: The Best Democracy that Money Can Buy February 21: Environment vs. Economy March 7: Building [...]
The Next System Teach-In
Join the Center for Communication & Civic Engagement (CCCE) for The Next System Teach-In on April 25 from 1 to 8 p.m. The event, sponsored by the Department of Communication among others, will take place [...]
Past Event: What should the next system look like – and how can we get there?
We are in the midst of systemic crisis. The realities of growing inequality, political stalemate, and climate disruption just scratch the surface of global issues. It is clear that the current system doesn't work for [...]