Frances Fields

The Beginning of the End for Free American Media?

posted on November 30, 2021 by Frances Fields

University of Georgia Tagged With: democratic backsliding, freedom of speech, media censorship, media freedom, Polarization, Stealth Authoritarianism

For 25 years, one of the greatest protections of free speech survived within a law largely created to limit free speech on the Internet. Three years after the Internet became public, the …

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Media: The Catalyst Behind Erosive Polarization

posted on October 13, 2021 by Frances Fields

University of Georgia Tagged With: American Democracy, American government, American politics, media, media bias, Polarization, political polarization

While there is hope for America’s future as a democracy, there are serious democratic backsliding issues at the present moment. Increased polarization is widely accepted as a pre-cursor to this …

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