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Conference: Communicating Narratives, Imaginaries and Epistemes of Hope
The conference on hope as a communicative force in media, culture, and public discourse. Abstract submission open until the 10th of May 2026.
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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.
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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).
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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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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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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.