Nico Carpentier
@nicocarpentier.bsky.social
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Communication+ Researcher - see
http://nicocarpentier.net/
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...
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Call for candidates for the 2026 PhD positions at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism | IKSŽ - Institut komunikačních studií a žurnalistiky
The Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague calls for candidates for the following PhD projects (each supported by a scholar...
https://iksz.fsv.cuni.cz/en/admissions/phd-programme-media-and-communication-studies/call-candidates-2026-phd-positions
5 days ago
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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...
7 days ago
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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...
9 days ago
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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...
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Nico Carpentier destaca a importância do ensaio audiovisual - PNB Online - Portal de Notícias MT
Ex-presidente da International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) e vice-presidente da Associação Europeia de Pesquisa e Educação em Comunicação, Carpentier sustenta que diferent...
https://pnbonline.com.br/nico-carpentier-destaca-a-importancia-do-ensaio-audiovisual/
10 days ago
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The European Journalism Observatory just published an article, by Štěpán Šanda, about the use of audiovisual/film essays in academia. In that article, our new film essay 'AGON: Constructions of Democracy' features as one of the examples. The article is here:
cz.ejo-online.eu/7969/nova-me...
13 days ago
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On 28 January 2026, from 3 to 5pm,
#CULCORC
is organising (in collaboration with the
#MeDeMAP
research project) the seminar "The Czech Citizen Parliament: Analysing Media Change, Participation, and Democracy". More at
culcorc.fsv.cuni.cz/outputs/semi...
All welcome!
21 days ago
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The European research project
#MeDeMAP
will hold a seminar on the relationship between media, data and democracy on 13 January 2026 (from from 14:00 to 17:30). The seminar will take place at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in Belgium. Registration is now open at
www.medemap.eu?p=1694
21 days ago
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Today is the letter-writing marathon at Charles University, for the release of our PhD student Bahruz Samadov. Bahruz was wrongfully convicted of high treason and sentenced by an Azerbaijani court to a prison sentence of 15 years. More at
www.researchcenterdesire.eu/bahruz-samad...
23 days ago
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Good to see the faculty of social sciences @cuni support for Bahruz Samadov
29 days ago
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Feel welcome to join the 2 December 2025 letter-writing marathon in support of the Charles university PhD student Bahruz Samadov, convicted for his critical stances towards the regime in his native Azerbaijan. For more information, see
fsv.cuni.cz/en/news/lett...
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Letter-writing marathon in support of our PhD student Bahruz Samadov | Fakulta sociálních věd UK
Join the letter-writing marathon in support of our PhD student Bahruz Samadov, convicted for his critical stances towards the regime in his native Azerbaijan. The event will take place on Tuesday, Dec...
https://fsv.cuni.cz/en/news/letter-writing-marathon-support-our-phd-student-bahruz-samadov
about 1 month ago
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The IAMCR 2026 call for papers is out. This year's theme is "Peripheries and Connections: Media, Communication, and Transformation". More at
iamcr.org/galway2026
about 1 month ago
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The full video of the
#MeDeMAP
Round Table on "Imagining New Relations for Media and Democracy: Beyond Defeatism" is now available at
bit.ly/MediaDemocra...
. It took place on 8 October 25, at the Universidade Lusófona, in Lisbon. Warm thanks to CICANT.
about 1 month ago
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Today, we had a great round table about "Democracy and media in Europe" in Uppsala, Sweden. Warm thanks to Göran Svensson, Johan Lindell and Matilda Tudor for joining the round table (and for all the new ideas), and to Peter Jakobsson for organising and chairing the event. Always great to be back ;)
about 1 month ago
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The second
#MeDeMAP
save-the-date: In the morning of 13 January 2026, we will have two round tables and a film screening, in Brussels. The round tables are on the EMFA and on the results of the citizen parliaments. More information, including a pre-registration email, is at
www.medemap.eu?p=1634
about 1 month ago
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A first
#MeDeMAP
save-the-date. In the afternoon of 13 January 2026, we will organise a debate about the (future of) democracy and journalism, and a workshop on the MeDeMAP database/map, one of the major outcomes of this research project. More soon at
medemap.eu
and
medemap.fsv.cuni.cz
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about 2 months ago
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For those in/around Uppsala, Sweden, on 13 November: we'll have another round table discussion on the Democracy and Media in Europe book. All welcome. See also
www.uu.se/en/departmen...
about 2 months ago
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This week at
#CULCORC
, we ran a PhD course on Discourse Studies and Method: Using Discourse-Theoretical Analysis and Discursive-Material Analysis. Today, the last day, we couldn't resist the opportunity for a group photo. It was a pleasure to work with all of you, and I wish you the very best :)
about 2 months ago
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The report of my short visit to the Academy of Film and Creative Technology (AFCT) at XJTLU just got published, and it really captured the atmosphere of that visit (thanks to Yunyi and Wenzhen Li for the report). It shows that I had fun ;) See:
www.xjtlu.edu.cn/en/news/2025...
2 months ago
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Today, we had a lovely seminar on the Czech citizen parliament on media and democracy (a part of our
#MeDeMAP
project). Special thanks to the Institute of Policy Studies of the National University of Singapore, and in particular Nicholas Thomas, for organising it and to Vaia Doudaki for joining me.
2 months ago
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Today was the première of the film essay 'Agon: Constructions of Democracy' in Kino Ponrepo in Prague, followed by a round table with the directors and DoP. Most enjoyable. With my warn thanks to my colleagues and the entire cast. More about the film essay at
www.constructionsofdemocracy.eu
2 months ago
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There are still a few seats left for the première of AGON: Constructions of Democracy, on October 23, 2025, in Kino NFA Ponrepo, in Prague. You can register here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
For more information about the film essay, see
constructionsofdemocracy.eu
2 months ago
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Amnesty International Belgium delivered 10,787 signatures to the Azerbaijani Embassy demanding the release of activists, academics, and journalists imprisoned there. Bahruz Samadov, a PhD student at Charles University, is one of them. Special thanks to AI for keeping his cruel destiny on the agenda.
3 months ago
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On 8 October we had another round table on democracy and media in Europe, this time in collaboration with CICANT, in Lisbon. The report is here:
cicant.ulusofona.pt/agenda-news/...
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Lusófona's academic community reflects on Media-Democracy relations within CICANT's 20th anniversary event - CICANT Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies
https://cicant.ulusofona.pt/agenda-news/news-events/1908-roundtable-media-democracy-20-years-cicant
3 months ago
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#MeDeMAP
round table on democracy and media about to start in Lisbon. Special thanks for the CICANT folks for making this possible.
3 months ago
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The print copies of the "Communication, Media, Cultural Industry" book arrived in Prague. An impressive and fitting tribute and goodbye to the dear Fausto Colombo. I was happy to have a modest contribution there, with Vaia Doudaki and Kirill Filimonov. Ciao, Fausto
3 months ago
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Happy to see another book review on our Democracy and Media in Europe book, this time in the European Journal of Communication. Thanks to Tingting Hu and Xinyi Wu for their gracious comments (and for correctly pointing to the need to move beyond Europe). See
doi.org/10.1177/0267...
3 months ago
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CULCORC produced a one-page note on some of the outcomes of the
#MeDeMAP
research project. With thanks to Karolína Šimková and Jeffrey Wimmer. You can download the note here:
www.medemap.eu/wp-content/u...
3 months ago
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We'll have another
#MeDeMAP
roundtable on media and democracy in Europe, this time in Uppsala, Sweden, on 13 November 2025. Special thanks to Peter Jakobsson and the UU dept. of Informatics and Media for their support. All welcome ;)
3 months ago
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Planned and published articles and books posters at the
#MeDeMAP
meeting, on media and democracy. Always good to take stock at a research consortium meeting, and take time to celebrate
3 months ago
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The
#culcorc
team at work at the
#MeDeMAP
consortium meeting in St. Pölten (Austria), with the first results of the analysis of the Czech citizen parliament on media and democracy.
3 months ago
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The sixth and last
#MeDeMAP
consortium meeting has begun. Three days of discussions about media en democracy in the Austrian city of St. Pölten, with a great team.
3 months ago
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Last week, Amnesty International released another Urgent Action Alert for Bahruz Samadov and Igbal Abilov, two academics sentenced in Azerbaijan to 15 and 18 years resp., for high treason:
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
For more information on Bahruz see
www.researchcenterdesire.eu/bahruz-samad...
3 months ago
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Today, on 22 September 2025, Mazlum Kemal Dağdelen successfully defended his PhD at
#iksz
, Charles University, on the construction of Turkishness in Turkish-Cypriot children's magazines. Congratulations to the new Doctor.
#proudsupervisor
#IAMCR
#MeDeMAP
3 months ago
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Happy to see that the piece I did with Ali Dokumacı for Housing Studies has been published. It's called 'Discursive constructions of the home after homelessness', and it is a case study of the Turkish YouTube channel Kadir's Eye, which documents how people leave the streets of Istanbul ...
3 months ago
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Happy to share the good news that our new
#MeDeMAP
article has been published. "The Grounds of the European Democracy-Media Nexus: Four Conditions of Possibility" was published in Media Watch, written together with Vaia Doudaki and Kirill Filimonov. And it's open access at:
doi.org/10.1177/0976...
3 months ago
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Old-fashioned or not, but I like having a journal issue in my hands. Especially when it has a nice collaborative piece in it, about the institutional and popular construction of European identity ;) & when it's actually open access, at
doi.org/10.24434/j.s...
4 months ago
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On 24 October 2025, Vaia Doudaki and I will be part of the Webinar "Citizens’ Parliament: Lessons in Public Participation", organised by the Institute of Policy Studies, at the National University of Singapore. More information at
lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/news-events/...
4 months ago
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IAMCR’s INTER/ACTIONS: Multimodal Academic Communication Task Force launched its report, Media and Communication Research Through a Multimodal Lens, at the 2025 conference in Singapore. The report is short and sweet, and now available for download at:
iamcr.org/MCR-report-2...
4 months ago
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The print copy of the edited book "The European Media in the Platform Era" just landed on my desk. It has a great line-up, and I'm proud to be part of it, with a visual essay about the construction of Europeaneity. Kudos to the two editors: Stylianos Papathanassopoulos and Andrea Miconi!
4 months ago
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Found the printed version of the
#MeDeMAP
Czech Citizen Parliament on Media and Democracy Resolutions Report on my desk. It looks fabulous, I must say. More at
medemap.fsv.cuni.cz/op/
4 months ago
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Congratulations to Gizem Canalp and Aysu Arsoy, for their new article entitled "Echoes of home: Turkish Cypriot IDPs and home perception in the context of ruins". It's a great analysis on the construction of home (in a sad and tragic context) ... More at
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Echoes of home: Turkish Cypriot IDPs and home perception in the context of ruins - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Echoes of home: Turkish Cypriot IDPs and home perception in the context of ruins
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-05822-8
4 months ago
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The première of our film, AGON: Constructions of Democracy, will take place at Prague's Ponrepo Kino, on 23 October 2025 at 1pm. Access is free, but prior registration is required. For more about the film essay, see
constructionsofdemocracy.eu
5 months ago
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On 8 October 2025, we'll do another seminar on our "Democracy and Media in Europe" book, this time in Lisbon. All are welcome, if you're around ... More information is at
ecati.ulusofona.pt/noticias/ima...
. Special thanks to the CICANT research centre for making this possible ...
5 months ago
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Medijske studije/Media studies just published a review of our Democracy and Media in Europe book. The reviewer, Vanja Pavlov from the University of Split, did quite an exceptional job, which you can find here:
hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/483389
5 months ago
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On 18 April 2025, I did a talk at the SJTU-IAMCR emerging media forum in Shanghai. The emerging media journal then had the kindness of publishing my talk in their colloquium section. It's now available, in open access, at
doi.org/10.1177/2752...
5 months ago
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#MeDeMAP
goes to Yogyakarta: On 25 July 2025, Vaia Doudaki and I did a seminar entitled "Citizen Parliament on Media and Democracy: A Tool for Democratic Renewal" at the Dept. of Communications of the Universitas Islam Indonesia. Special thanks to he entire UII team for organising.
5 months ago
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Call for the release of Bahruz Samadov On 17 July 2025, at the closing plenary at the Singapore conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (#IAMCR), the members present condemned the conviction of IAMCR member Bahruz Samadov. Source:
iamcr.org/news/release...
5 months ago
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Started my work at the communications dept of the universitas islam Indonesia today. The banner is slightly oversized but still very appreciated, and I'm particularly pleased with the new iteration of the HEH's constructions of Europeanity exhibition.
5 months ago
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Next stop Yogyakarta. Looking forward to engaging with the good folks (t)here, with a series of lectures and workshops. The Thursday seminar on democratic renewal and citizen parliaments is open to all - feel welcome if you're around!
5 months ago
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Exhibition 1 @ IAMCR Singapore ready for all to see. Come and see the HEH's constructions of Europeanity visual essay, if you're around. Warm thanks to the
#wkwsci
, the multimodality working group and
#iamcr
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6 months ago
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