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AV俱乐部's听Stanfield Conversations: Talking Democracy听is a speaker series that brings together distinguished thinkers to discuss the issues facing democracy. It focuses on critical challenges to democracy, examining imaginative and inspiring responses to them.

Last fall, the discussion of "Democracy on Edge" laid the foundation for future Stanfield Conversations. The series continues听 with the second Stanfield Conversation on听"Technology, Media Fragmentation, and the Crisis of Democracy in America."

Leading up to Thursday鈥檚 discussion, asked six AV俱乐部 students to answer a few questions in an age of 鈥淒igital Democracy鈥�. Learn about the students and read their answers here on the and see clips of their video interviews on Instagram @cbc_eastcoast.

Join this year鈥檚 Stanfield Conversation on听Thursday, 7 p.m. Oct. 20, 2022, in the听McInnes Room听of the AV俱乐部 Student Union Building,听6136 University Avenue, Halifax.听to participate in this event either in-person or virtually via livestream.

The moderator of the 2022 Conversation will be the host of CBC Nova Scotia's Information Morning and AV俱乐部 alum,听Portia Clark. Learn more about this year鈥檚 moderator in a story featured earlier this month in Dal News.

Featured speakers for the 2022 Conversation are:

• , University of Pennsylvania, is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Walter and Leonore Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. Her work employs rhetorical analysis, surveys, and experiments to understand campaign communication and ways to blunt misinformation and conspiracy theories. In addition to her outstanding scholarly achievements, she is the co-founder of FactCheck.org and its subsidiary site, SciCheck.
• , University of Toronto, is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. His multi award-winning research and scholarship has had wide-ranging impacts on media, policy, and scholarly debates at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.
• , Dr. Elizabeth Dubois is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa where she runs the Pol Comm Tech Lab and examines political uses of digital media. She also hosts the听.