Society’s potential for deliberative communication – how it is related to the media and communication-related competencies
Society’s potential for deliberative communication – how it is related to the media and communication-related competencies

Author(s): Halliki Harro-Loit
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies
Published by: Факултет по журналистика и масова комуникация, Софийски университет „Св. Кл. Охридски”
Keywords: deliberative communication; media and communication-related competencies
Summary/Abstract: The idea of deliberation and its possible benefits for high-functioning democracy has been regularly addressed in political philosophy and political science. Democratic governance requires high-quality communication that helps to increase public engagement, trust, and dialogic communication between different societal groups, therefore deliberation is usually discussed from a democratic perspective. In the era of information overload and increasing poverty of attention, mediatization, hate speech, opinion polarization, and problems concerning the spread of mis- and misinformation – it is important to ask what would be the conditions and factors that support the potential of deliberative communication in a society.

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