About Our Guest:
Thorsten Quandt is a professor of online communication at the University of Münster in Germany. He has authored and co-authored over 150 articles and books on topics including online journalism, participatory and citizen journalism, social media, and online gaming. His work has been cited more than 11,000 times by fellow academics. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including being nominated twice to the list of the top 40 most significant young scientists in Germany. 

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Listen to Torsten's lecture, "From participation to dark participation: online news between hope and hate."

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Show Notes
0:03: Show and guest introduction
1:16: Summary of Thorsten's Hearst Demystifying Media lecture
2:26: Evolution of Thorsten's research
4:19: Participatory journalism then and now
6:57: Changing discourse about internet communication and the media
9:19: Evaluating dark participation
12:25: Is dark participation the crisis we think it is?
16:19: Differences between dark participation in Europe and the U.S.
22:56: Assessing the real impact of media on public opinion
28:27: Advice for media consumers
30:45: Wrap-up

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