{"id":4944,"date":"2025-02-06T17:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T16:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/?post_type=hbi-news&p=4944"},"modified":"2025-02-06T17:21:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T16:21:52","slug":"we-do-not-have-to-sound-the-death-knell-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"hbi-news","link":"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-news\/news\/we-do-not-have-to-sound-the-death-knell-for-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Do Not Have to Sound the Death Knell for Democracy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

How dangerous are disinformation campaigns? Prof. Dr. Matthias Kettemann<\/a>, a legal expert, questions the often-invoked link between misinformation and the \u201cthreat to democracy\u201d. In an interview with Anna Henschel on the portal Wissenschaftskommunikation.de<\/span><\/a>, he refers to findings he recently published in the volume \u201cInformation Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy: A Global Synthesis of the State of Knowledge on New Media, AI and Data Governance<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

To the interview “Wir m\u00fcssen nicht den Abgesang auf die Demokratie anstimmen<\/span>“<\/a> [We do not have to sound the death knell for democracy]<\/p>\n

Abstract from the Interview<\/h2>\n

Kettemann: \u201cDemocracy is resilient. We don’t have to sound the death knell for democracy when we look at the fundamental changes of the last 20 years brought about by the digital transformation. Communication cultures and structures have changed \u2013 and yet opinion-forming works by and large.<\/p>\n

However, if we judge this change negatively, saying, \u201cThis is the end of democracy,\u201d then that is value-driven. But one should not act as if it were indisputable that democracy is in crisis.<\/p>\n

It is always important to monitor the right and left fringes. It is always important to support civil society engagement. It is always important to stand up for the law \u2013 especially in online spaces. So it makes perfect sense to take a critical look at newer trends in the development of democracy. But you should neither be afraid nor complacent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1221,"template":"","categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4944","hbi-news","type-hbi-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\u201cWe Do Not Have to Sound the Death Knell for Democracy\u201d - Leibniz Institut f\u00fcr Medienforschung | Leibniz Institute for Media Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How dangerous are disinformation campaigns? Legal expert Matthias Kettemann questions the often-invoked link between misinformation and the \u201cthreat to democracy\u201d. 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