Follow-up funding for Professor Hartmut Wessler's research on mediated contestation in comparative perspective
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has granted follow-up funding for Professor Hartmut Wessler's project B2.12 "Mediated Contestation in Comparative Perspective".
Wessler and his team investigate the extent, structure, content and style of mediated contestation over issues related to religion/secularism in six democracies (USA, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, and Lebanon) and three media types (daily newspapers, news websites, and political blogs).
(April 11, 2018)