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.
This article by Anastassia Zabrodskaja, Silvia Almenara-Niebla, Mélodine Sommier, David Ongenaert, and Sara Marino introduces a Special Issue of the Journal of Global Diaspora & Media.
Giulia Ferri will present on media literacy and the unequal conditions of democratic imagination.
The conference will feature two keynote speeches along with eight sessions on topics relating to hope.
Two members from CULCORC, along with two fellow PhD students from the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, participated in the ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2026.
Yaroslava Kutsai talks to Dr. Robert R. Janes — a museologist with more than five decades of experience.
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Faculty of Social Sciences
Charles University
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Czech Republic