Fun at the away-days of the Portuguese research centre CICANT, with a talk on hope and democracy, and one case study on the Czech citizen parliament and one case study on a participatory arts project. Thanks to all present, for a (really) lovely discussion! #MeDeMAP #CULCORC #MISTRA #FΓ€rgfabriken
Congrats to dr. Daniel Nielsen, our most recent doctor at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, at Charles Uni., who successfully defended his PhD thesis today. It's a fine piece of work (and a great cover)! Also congrats to supervisor Jaroslav Ε velch for the exemplary support.
AGON screening in Famagusta, 3 March 2026, with special thanks to Aysu Arsoy for organising it. For more, see constructionsofdemocracy.eu #MeDeMAP #CULCORC
On 3 March 2026, there will be a screening of the 26-minute film essay AGON: Constructions of Democracy, at the VACD of the Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) in Famagusta, Cyprus. All welcome!
#CULCORC #MeDeMAP #democracy
The 26-minute film essay AGON: Constructions of Democracy, by Ali Minanto, Nico Carpentier and Jhon Sany Purwanto is now available in open access at tecmerin.uc3m.es/project/agon.... It's part of our #MeDeMAP project.
For more, see also www.constructionsofdemocracy.eu #CULCORC
A #MeDeMAP talk on the Czech citizen parliament on media and democracy, on 4 march, in Famagusta, Cyprus. All welcome (and with thanks to the Cyprus policy centre for organising it)
The trophies from the 11th MCAP-BNU conference in Lahore, and the 7th MCAP doctoral spring school in Islamabad. Congratulations to the Pakistani communication studies association MCAP, and its team, for another successful iteration of their conference and doctoral school.
Agon (Constructions of Democracy) went to Lahore ... Wonderful opportunity to talk about democracy and arts(-based research). Special thanks for #mcap and #MeDeMAP ...
For those of you who are in/around Lahore: We have a new screening of AGON, on 12 February 2026, at 1.30pm, as part of the 11th MCAP-BNU International Media Conference 2026. The conference is at Beaconhouse National University (BNU), in Lahore, Pakistan. See mcap.top/conference-h...
Hand-written review about the film essay AGON
Eiliyah, an 8-year-old MCAP spring school participant watched our film (Agon: Constructions of Democracy) yesterday, and today she gave me a little note, with her review. It's a review one can only dream of ... Deeply moving ... And all thanks to #MeDeMAP ...
Today, we had a screening of the film essay AGON at the MCAP doctoral spring school in Islamabad, followed by a lovely discussion ... More about the film at constructionsofdemocracy.eu #MeDeMAP and #CULCORC
The MCAP 2026 doctoral spring school has begun. Thus time we're in Islamabad ... And what other start is better than a poster workshop, having all the participants present their projects ...
Happy to announce the publication of our new article, Gendered constructions of migration in Europe. Written by/with a large #EUMEPLAT team, led by Panos, Sara and myself, it was just published in the European Journal of Cultural Studies. Open access at: doi.org/10.1177/1367.... Enjoy the read!
Our two respondents at the 28/1/26 seminar on the Czech citizen parliament on media and democracy: Josef Seethaler and Andreas Martin ... Thanks to all for a wonderful conversation ... #MeDeMAP #CULCORC
Our #CULCORC seminar on the Czech citizen parliament (part of the #MeDeMAP project) just started, providing a first analysis of the results of the project. Here Vaia Doudaki at work ... More at medemap.fsv.cuni.cz
Very happy to announce the publication of our little theoretical escapade into the fetish: "Theorising a Multidimensional Model for Analysing Data Fetishism: Reconciling Marxist and Freudian Approaches to the 'Split'", written together with Andrea Miconi. Available at: brill.com/downloadpdf/...
The flyers for our #CULCORC Seminar on The Czech Citizen Parliament: Analysing Media Change, Participation, and Democracy are being distributed as we speak. The seminar, in the framework of our #MeDeMAP project, is in Prague on 28 January 2026. All welcome! > culcorc.fsv.cuni.cz/outputs/semi...
At the #MeDeMAP conference in Roma, there was also a MeDeMAP panel, with several talks about the citizen parliament on media and democracy, but also on the audience interpretations of mediated democracy ... More at medemap.eu
#MeDeMAP moved from Brussels to Rome, for the (closing) conference Beyond the Audience, with Andrea Miconi and Josef Seethaler opening the two-day event ...
Afternoon programme for #MeDeMAP starting, with a debate on journalism and democracy at the VUB/ULB
Responses from the two MEPs Hannes Heide and Lena Schilling to the citizen parliamentarians' presentations, at #MeDeMAP
The Czech citizen representatives of our citizen parliament on media and democracy at work in the EP ... Brought to you by #MeDeMAP
#MeDeMAP at EP part two ...
#MeDeMAP panel on media policy at the European Parliament starting ...
As a follow-up to the #MeDeMAP Czech Citizen Parliament on Media and Democracy, we have produced a series of infographics about the resolutions accepted by the 20 parliamentarians. The first one gives an overview of all resolutions, and can be downloaded here: nicocarpentier.net/CP_Infograph...
Last call for the #MeDeMAP seminars on Media and Democracy, on 13 January 2026. If you want to join one of these seminars, feel free to register at www.medemap.eu?p=1738 (morning) and www.medemap.eu?p=1694 (afternoon).
We have just published the 2026 call with the PhD positions at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism at Charles University (Prague), for its English-language PhD programme in Media and Communication Studies. You'll find them here: iksz.fsv.cuni.cz/en/admission....
Today, the European Parliament "Strongly condemn(ed) the arrest, prosecution and sentencing of Bahruz Samadov and Igbal Abilov on politically motivated charges". Thanks to all who worked so hard to bring these dreadful events to the EP's attention. Full text: www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...
The #MeDeMAP seminar "Regulating Media for Future Democracies: Political and People's Voices" will take place on 13 January 2026, from 9:30 to 11:30, in the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium.
Registration is at bit.ly/FutureDemocr...
PNBonline just published a short piece on AGON: Constructions of Democracy, written by Pedro Pinto de Oliveira and Safira Campos. It's in Portuguese, and you can find it here: pnbonline.com.br/nico-carpent...
