Prof. Lance Bennett

About

Lance Bennett is Professor Emeritus of Communication and Political Science. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Journalism, Media and Democracy at the University of Washington, Seattle, and Associated Researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin.

He has lectured and published on media and information systems, press-government relations, citizenship and civic engagement, digital activism, and problems of disinformation in democracies. His current work focuses on better aligning environment, economy and democracy to build more equitable and sustainable societies.

He has held visiting professorships at Harvard, Uppsala, Stockholm, and Free University, Berlin, and received honorary doctorates from Uppsala and Bern. He has career achievement awards from the American Political Science Association, The International Communication Association, and the US National Communication Association, along with a German Humboldt Research Prize for distinguished international scholarship.

Selected publications include: The Logic of Connective Action (Cambridge 2013, with Alexandra Segerberg), The Disinformation Age (open access, Cambridge 2020, with Steven Livingston), and Communicating the Future: Solutions for Environment, Economy and Democracy (Polity 2021).