Title: Vertrauen durch Beteiligung
English title: Trust through Participation
By Jeffrey Wimmer
PR Magazin
Starting from the experiences gained in the course of the MeDeMAP project, Jeffrey Wimmer, Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Augsburg, discusses how journalistic organizations can address distance, criticism, and justified mistrust. In his text, Wimmer focuses on citizens’ parliaments as an instrument of participation.
MeDeMAP is an EU project that aimed to set out future-proof pathways to strengthen democracy by improving accountability, transparency, and effectiveness of media production and expanding active and inclusive citizenship. The research project studies the extent to which certain media, under which conditions perform which democratic functions for which audiences, thus making it apparent what is at stake for democratic media – and for democracy itself.