Can Vote, Won't Vote : Is the Media to Blame for Political Disengagement?

Thursday 6 November 6, 2003
A one-day conference by the Unit for Journalism Research, Department of Media & Communications, Goldsmiths, London in association with the Media and Politics Group of the Political Studies Association.

With:
Donald MacIntyre
Political Commentator, The Independent

Julia Hartley-Brewer
Political Editor, Sunday Express

Andrew Marr
Political Editor, BBC

Professor Robert Entman
North Carolina State University and author of Dempcracy Without Citizens: Media and Decay of American Politics

and Sessions featuring new research in media and political studies including:

• "Wired, disenfranchised but not necessarily out of touch: youth attitudes towards mediated democracy"
• "The Truth about Youth: Young people, voter engagement and the media"
• "Images of citizenship on TV news: breaking the cycle of decline in political participation"
• "After Le Pen: The media and voter mobilisation in France"
• "Tabloid Citizens? British and American 'Tab' Readers and their Politics"
• "Stirring up apathy: the media and the Welsh Assembly elections"
• "Dumbing down: is it just a media myth?"
• "Spinning out of control? The Labour Government and the Government Information Communication Service"