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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).
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Screening of ‘AGON: Constructions of Democracy’ at the Corvinus University of Budapest
Screening of the film as part of the research seminar on media and democracy at Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary (23 April 2026).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Gradual Disappearance of the Old. Apocalypse in Eastern European Landscapes
In this paper, Štěpán Šanda examines the representations of Eastern European landscapes in local video games with post-apocalyptic settings. The paper paper considers the post-apocalyptic games S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, Metro 2033 and DayZ made and set in Eastern Europe.
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Doing Good or Looking Good? Multinational Corporations’ Social Media Discourses on Forcibly Displaced People
This study examines how five leading multinational corporations (Google, McKinsey & Company, Airbnb, Starbucks and IKEA) represent forcibly displaced people in their Twitter and YouTube communication (2015–2022). Using Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis, the authors examined their YouTube videos, tweets and embedded organic content.
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DESIRE reports on MeDeMAP seminar ‘Mapping Media for Future Democracies’
DESIRE, one of CULCORC’s partners from Brussels, reports on the MeDeMAP event titled Mapping Media for Future Democracies held on the 13th of January 2026. In addition to a debate on journalism and democracy, the event featured an interactive workshop on the MeDeMAP map.
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Faculty of Social Sciences reports on MeDeMAP project roundtables at the European Parliament
Faculty of Social Sciences (Charles University, Prague) reports on two dissemination events titled ‘Regulating Media for Future Democracies: Political and People’s Voice’ and ‘Mapping Media for Future Democracies’, held in Brussels on the 13th of January 2026.