How has the public sphere changed in the age of post-truth? What makes a society a functioning democracy? And how do online echo chambers impact democratic deliberation?
This TEPSA Animated Explainer, created in collaboration with the RECLAIM project, explores how digital media and the spread of fake news threaten the democratic public sphere. The video is based on the findings of “Fragmented and polarised? The public sphere in the post-factual age”, a RECLAIM publication, edited by Maximilian Conrad and Saul Newman.
An autonomous public space is crucial to the functioning of liberal democracy. As part of the Horizon-funded “Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in the Post-Factual Age” (RECLAIM) project, a consortium of pan-European analysts and experts are investigating the impact of post-truth politics on liberal democracy in recent years and looking for ways to mitigate it.
