Social Media Participation, Political Trust and Attitudes Towards Democracy 

TRUEDEM Slovakia invites you to on-line research seminar on political trust, democracy and social media. The discussion will be led by TRUEDEM-Slovakia team members Aneta Világi, Branislav Dolný and Pavol Baboš. JOIN VIA TEAMS

The discussion will elaborate on existing theories and state of art on political trust, trustworthiness, democracy and the role played by social media. Performance theories suggest that attitudes formation of political trust reflect rational calculations in decision-making processes about trustworthy relationships. Connected to decision making processes, some authors stress the importance of „input“ side of liberal democracy in nourishing public confidence. Social media recently have become an important part of online news distribution and consumption, crucial tool for sharing political information and serves as easily accessible platforms for political dialogue (interactions with agents, agencies and other users). From this perspective, social media offer amply opportunities for studying new channels for transfer of citizen’s demands into the policymaking and also for analyzing modern tools for political participation. 

16:00-17:30 on November 30, 2023; Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava

Room N212, Múzejná ulica 10, 811 02 Bratislava, Slovakia