The Culture and Communication Research Centre (CULCORC) is a research unit affiliated to 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 characterise 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.
CULCORC members work in a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional way, acknowledging the importance of academic fields, disciplines and other academic structures, but simultaneously searching for ways to overcome their limitations, and establish interactions and networks beyond the field of Communication and Media Studies, beyond the Social Sciences and beyond Academia.
CULCORC is deeply committed to its remit of knowledge production but is equally aware and respectful of the many existing trajectories and assemblages to collaborate in the production of always-situated knowledge. This renders CULCORC members mindful of the existing diversities in Academia and beyond, and the need to support groups that are in less powerful positions, including early-stage scholars and scholars from the global South.