2024 ASPA Political Communication Preconference (Registration is FREE)

In keeping with the main conference theme, “Democracy: Retrenchment, Renovation, & Reimagination ,” this year's call urged Preconference submitters to consider how communication theory, as well as trends in journalism, digital technologies, and our broader media environment interact with - or shape - democratic norms, institutions, and processes. As always, we encouraged scholars to think in terms of fundamental normative questions of democratic health, and ways of applying political communication research to advance our understanding of – and even help solve – the big questions of our time.

This year’s FREE preconference, designed to allow time for both formal and informal discussion and exchange of ideas, will feature:

• 4 traditional panels

• 8 plenary and roundtables

• a keynote lecture from Dr. Emily Thorson on her new book "The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public."

• Time for informal exchanges during continental breakfast, lunch, breaks, and a closing reception

Host or Publisher Dannagal Young