Social Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe

The workshop is part of the Horizon Europe project “Social media for democracy – understanding the causal mechanisms of digital citizenship” (SoMe4Dem).

In this workshop we want to address the impact of social media as technologies of political influence in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and beyond. The workshop focuses on issues such as disinformation, polarization and politicization in the region and beyond. Its aim is to reflect on democracy and citizenship practices in CEE through the prism of social media as “dual-use” technologies, which can offer new potential for democracy but also threaten it at the same time.

The workshop will bring together scientists from the SoMe4Dem project with scholars working on Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.