News
CULCORC Newsletter | March 2026
A new edition of CULCORC Newsletter showcasing the activities and outputs of CULCORC members since September 2025. has been published.
In Media
DAÜ’de medya ve demokrasi semineri düzenlendi / Media and democracy seminar was held at EMU
Gündem Kıbrıs Gazetesi reports on the lecture titled “Interventionist Research: The Case of the Czech Citizen Parliament on Media and Democracy”, by Nico Carpentier.
Reports
Johana Bazlerová: Citizens’ Parliament Shows How Ordinary People Can Shape Media and Democratic Policy
Johana Bazlerová reports on the Citizens’ Parliament organized as a part of the MeDeMAP – Mapping Media for Future Democracies.
In Media
Přemýšlet se zvukem a obrazem. Audiovizuální eseje představují odlišný druh vědecké práce / Thinking with sound and images: Audiovisual essays as a different way to represent scientific work
Štěpán Šanda discusses the use of audiovisual/film essays in academia. The film essay ‘AGON: Constructions of Democracy‘, features as one of the examples.
Screenings
Screening of the film at the Eastern Mediterranean University in Famagusta, Cyprus
Screening of the film at the Eastern Mediterranean University in Famagusta, Cyprus (3 March 2026).
Screenings
Screening of ‘AGON: Constructions of Democracy’ at the Beaconhouse national university in Lahore
Screening of the film as part of the 11th MCAP-BNU International Media Conference 2026, at the Beaconhouse national university (BNU), in Lahore, Pakistan (12 February 2026).
Publications
Gendered constructions of migration in Europe: An intersectional analysis of inclusionary and exclusionary discourses on social media platforms
CULCORC members are among several authors who explore intersectional discourses of migration and gender in the social media environments of three different European countries – Belgium, Greece, and Italy.
Reports
ICSJ Brings Czech Citizen Parliament Insights to the European Parliament
Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism reports on the two seminars organised as a part of the MeDeMAP project in which several CULCORC members are involved.
Events
Seminar On The Czech Citizen Parliament: Analysing Media Change, Participation and Democracy
In this event, the Czech Citizen Parliament was examined as an illustrative case, through which the broader dynamics of contemporary democratic practices can be explored.
Publications
Theorizing a multidimensional model for analyzing data fetishism: Reconciling Marxist and Freudian approaches to the ‘split’
In this chapter Andrea Miconi and Nico Carpentier deploy the notion of data fetishism to capture and unpack the centralising of computer-processed/generated large-scale data and its societal privileging over knowledge.