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Prof. Lance Bennett

University of Washington

Department of Communication

E-Mail: lbennett@u.washington.edu

Homepage: http://www.com.washington.edu/faculty/bennett.html

Short CV

Lance Bennett received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 1974, and has taught since then at the University of Washington, where he is Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor Communication and Professor of Political Science. He is also founder and director of the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement. The Center is dedicated to understanding how communication processes and technologies can enhance citizen engagement with social life, politics, and global affairs.

From September to December 2009 Lance Benett has been visiting researcher at KFG.

Curriculum Vitae

Main Fields of interest

• Press-government relations and the quality of public information
• Strategic communication campaigns
• Communication and the organization of social movements
• Transnational activism
• Digital media and youth civic engagement
  

Recent Publications

• When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina (co-authored
  with Regina G. Lawrence and Steven Livingston). University of Chicago, 2007.
• Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth. (editor) M.I.T. Press,
  2008.
• “Civic Learning in Changing Democracies: Challenges for Citizenship and Civic Education.” In Peter Dahlgren, ed., Young Citizens and New Media: Learning Democratic Engagement. New York, Routledge, 2007.
• “Press Freedom and Democratic Accountability in a Time of War, Commercialism and the Internet” (with Regina Lawrence). In Doris grabber, Pippa Norris, and Denis McQuail, eds., The Politics of News: The News of Politics. 2nd edition. CQ Press,2008, pp. 247-267.
• “Changing Citizenship in the Digital Age.” In Bennett, ed., Civic Life Online. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 2008, pp. 1-24.
• “Pahittad allmanhet: Hur Amerikanska nyhetsmedier anvander opinionsmatningar for att dramatisera demokratin” (Inventing the public: How U.S. News organizations use polls to dramatize democracy). In Olof Petersson, ed., Medierna: Folkets rost? Demokratirads raport 2008. Stockholm: SNS Forlag, 2008, pp. 79-97.
• “Engineering Consent: The Persistence of a Problematic Communication Regime.” In Peter Nardulli, ed., Domestic Perspectives on Contemporary Democracy. University of Illinois Press, 2008, pp. 131-154.