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D-Index
60
Citations
34055
World Ranking
108
National Ranking
65

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 1998 - Ithiel de Sola Pool Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)

Overview

W. Lance Bennett is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research focuses predominantly on social sciences with particular attention to communication, political science and international relations, sociology and political science, strategy and management, and safety research.

The main topics addressed in their work include social media and politics, populism and right-wing movements, misinformation and its impacts, electoral systems and political participation, media influence and politics, ethics and social impacts of AI, and privacy, security, and data protection.

Bennett has contributed to various scholarly journals, frequently publishing in Information Communication & Society, with additional publications in the European Journal of Communication, Perspectives on Politics, Management Communication Quarterly, and the Journal of Communication.

Significant recent papers include:

  • From the fringes into mainstream politics: intermediary networks and movement-party coordination of a global anti-immigration campaign in Germany, 2022, Information Communication & Society
  • Communication and democratic erosion: The rise of illiberal public spheres, 2023, European Journal of Communication
  • Killing the golden goose? A framework for regulating disruptive technologies, 2021, Information Communication & Society
  • Platforms, Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy: Connective Action and the Rise of Illiberalism, 2025, Perspectives on Politics
  • Corporate Social Responsibility in The Disinformation Age, 2024, Management Communication Quarterly

Frequent collaborators in Bennett's work include Steven Livingston, Ulrike Klinger, Curd Knüpfer, Franziska Martini, and Xixuan Zhang.

Their research intersects with several fields and subfields, highlighting a multidisciplinary approach to the analysis of communication and political phenomena. The focus on topics such as misinformation, populism, and social media situates their work in contemporary debates on democracy and political participation.

Bennett received the Ithiel de Sola Pool Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 1998.

Best Publications

  • The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics

    W. Lance Bennett;Alexandra Segerberg

  • A New Era of Minimal Effects? The Changing Foundations of Political Communication

    W. Lance Bennett;Shanto Iyengar

  • Toward a Theory of Press-State Relations in the United States

    W. Lance Bennett

  • News, the politics of illusion

    W. Lance Bennett

  • The Personalization of Politics Political Identity, Social Media, and Changing Patterns of Participation

    W. Lance Bennett

  • When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina

    W. Lance Bennett;Regina G. Lawrence;Steven Livingston

  • Changing Citizenship in the Digital Age

    W. Lance Bennett

  • The disinformation order: Disruptive communication and the decline of democratic institutions:

    W Lance Bennett;Steven Livingston

  • The Logic of Connective Action

    W. Lance Bennett;Alexandra Segerberg

  • The UnCivic Culture: Communication, Identity, and the Rise of Lifestyle Politics*

    W. Lance Bennett

  • Mediated politics : communication in the future of democracy

    W. Lance Bennett;Robert M. Entman

  • Reconstructing Reality in the Courtroom: Justice and Judgment in American Culture

    W. Lance Bennett;Martha S. Feldman

  • 1998 Ithiel De Sola Pool Lecture: The UnCivic Culture: Communication, Identity, and the Rise of Lifestyle Politics

    W. Lance Bennett

  • Social media and the organization of collective action : using Twitter to explore the ecology of two climate change protests

    Alexandra Segerberg;W. Lance Bennett

  • Taken by storm : the media, public opinion, and U. S. foreign policy in the Gulf War

    W. Lance Bennett;David L. Paletz

  • Young citizens and civic learning: two paradigms of citizenship in the digital age

    W. Lance Bennett;Chris Wells;Allison Rank

  • Communicating Global Activism

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  • None Dare Call It Torture: Indexing and the Limits of Press Independence in the Abu Ghraib Scandal

    W. Lance Bennett;Regina G. Lawrence;Steven Livingston

  • Digital Media and the Personalization of Collective Action : Social Technology and the Organization of Protests against the Global Economic Crisis

    W. Lance Bennett;Alexandra Segerberg

  • Gatekeeping, Indexing, and Live-Event News: Is Technology Altering the Construction of News?

    Steven Livingston;W. Lance Bennett

  • Rethinking Political Communication in a Time of Disrupted Public Spheres

    W Lance Bennett;Barbara Pfetsch

  • Organization in the crowd: peer production in large-scale networked protests

    W. Lance Bennett;Alexandra Segerberg;Shawn Walker

  • Civic Life Online : Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth

    W. Lance Bennett

  • Managing the Public Sphere: Journalistic Construction of the Great Globalization Debate

    W. Lance Bennett;Victor W. Pickard;David P. Iozzi;Carl L. Schroeder

  • An introduction to journalism norms and representations of politics

    W. Lance Bennett

  • The democratic interface: technology, political organization, and diverging patterns of electoral representation

    W. Lance Bennett;Alexandra Segerberg;Curd B. Knüpfer

  • Changing Citizen Identity and the Rise of a Participatory Media Culture

    W. Lance Bennett;Deen Freelon;Chris Wells

  • Mediated Politics: Communication in the Future of Democracy: A Conclusion

    Robert M. Entman;W. Lance Bennett

Frequent Co-Authors

Deen Freelon
Deen Freelon University of Pennsylvania
Alan Borning
Alan Borning University of Washington
Robert M. Entman
Robert M. Entman George Washington University
Regina G. Lawrence
Regina G. Lawrence University of Oregon
Stefaan Walgrave
Stefaan Walgrave University of Antwerp
Peter Van Aelst
Peter Van Aelst University of Antwerp
Michael A. Xenos
Michael A. Xenos University of Wisconsin–Madison
Shanto Iyengar
Shanto Iyengar Stanford University
Christian Breunig
Christian Breunig University of Konstanz
Volker Wulf
Volker Wulf University of Siegen

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