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SUMMARY:Democracy@Risk Launch Event
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DESCRIPTION:This is a cross-theme Digital Futures event between Citizens 
 & Government and Digital Trust & Security themes.\n\nIn the wake of the 
 digital surge caused by the COVID-19 pandemic\, citizens are spending a 
 record proportion of their day on their digital devices\, whilst the lev
 el of public dissatisfaction with democracy is at its highest since the 
 mid-1990s. It seems that in this twenty-first century\, the demos have n
 ever been more online\, and democracy has never felt more at risk.\n\nTh
 e Democracy@Risk report summarises the key findings of a multidisciplina
 ry literature review conducted by the Democracy@Risk Project at the Univ
 ersity of Manchester in 2020. \nDrawing on existing research and scholar
 ship\, it sheds further light on digital political micro-targeting and o
 nline misinformation as two potential sources of harm for democracy in t
 he digital age\, and assesses the challenges relating to digital informa
 tion literacy as one of the most frequently proposed solutions to the pr
 oblems generated by these phenomena.\n\nThis event will bring together e
 xpertise from across the University of Manchester's Digital Futures netw
 ork to discuss the key challenges assessed in this report\, and look at 
 how citizens might be better empowered to deal with them.
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TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
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