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.
Yaroslava Kutsai talks to Dr. Robert R. Janes — a museologist with more than five decades of experience.
Nico Carpentier and Jeffrey Wimmer discuss European democracies and the media's roles in shaping and maintaining them.
The upcoming official selection of the 2026 Posibl. Festival at the Universidad de Palermo Mario Bravo 1050, Buenos Aires, Argentina will take place in August.
A study by Karolína Šimková and Jeffrey Wimmer, which examines how trust and mistrust in media and democracy in the Czech Republic emerge from the interaction of discursive interpretations and material conditions.
The Special MeDeMAP issue of ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies, featuring contributions from the CULCORC members, has been published and is available in open access.
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