Call for papers for audio/visual essays for the Media Studies Journal
The call for audio/visual essays is open until the 15th of September 2026.
CULCORC is a research unit affiliated with the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague. CULCORC was established in 2022 as part of the Institute’s CEMES research structure.
The objectives of CULCORC are to engage in, and facilitate, research on culture and communication, with an emphasis on the multitude of meaning-generating processes, enabled by communicational exchanges, the power dynamics that characterize them and the conflicts that surround them, the intersections with the material worlds of technologies and infrastructures, and with embodied practices and non-human realities.
The call for audio/visual essays is open until the 15th of September 2026.
New book by Nico Carpentier, Vaia Doudaki and Kirill Filimonov on the political struggles over the environment and human–nature relationships consists of an extensive theoretical framework, a large-scale mapping project and discussions of several case studies.
This article reviews the book Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach, written by Nico Carpentier and Jeffrey Wimmer, as part of the MeDeMAP project.
This article, written by Uxía Sánchez Lorda and published by the European Journalism Observatory, examines female representation on social media.
The panel discussion takes place in the Hollar Building on the 14th of September (13.00-14.30). Those interested in attending can register by emailing cds.iksz@fsv.cuni.cz.
Safira Campos highlights how multimodal communication can expand the possibilities for production and circulation of knowledge.
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