After visiting the university of split, my dear colleagues published a short interview with me (in Croatian). You'll find it here: www.unist.hr/komunikolog-.... Thanks to Emanuela Šamija for the interview, and Nikola Brboleža/Cropix for the photo

Last day of the FLOW34 programme, at the 2026 Galway #IAMCR conference. Congrats to MCR working group, Sandra, Aysu and Pedro, for putting this year's edition together ...

#MeDeMAP panel on participation and knowledge at IAMCR Galway 2026 ... One happy convenor listening to great presentations. #CULCORC

Congratulations to Gizem Canalp (and fellow supervisor Aysu Arsoy) for having her PhD accepted (with minor revisions). It's a lovely piece of work on how Turkish Cypriot IDPs understand the concept of home ... #CULCORC

Yesterday, Jeffrey Wimmer and I had another MeDeMAP round table about our Democracy and Media in Europe book. Hosted by the Communication and Media Department, University of Split, with Antonija Čuvalo and Krešimir Krolo as respondents ... Thanks to all! #CULCORC and #MeDeMAP (photos by Laura Galić)

Today we had another screening of AGON: Constructions of Democracy; this time at the Communication and Media Days Split 2026. Warm thanks to Viktorija Car + her team for making this possible (and Jeffrey Wimmer for the photos). Notice the audience being teleported out (or in?) ... #CULCORC #MeDeMAP

We'll have a new screening of AGON: Constructions of Democracy, on 5 June (4pm), at the Communication and Media Days 2026, in Split, Croatia. If you're around. If you want to know more about the film essay, see www.constructionsofdemocracy.eu #CULCORC #MeDeMAP #Democracy

On 5 June, Jeffrey Wimmer and I will have another roundtable on our Democracy and Media book. This time with a panel at the Communication and Media Days Split 2026. We'll be joined by Viktorija Car as chair, and Antonija Čuvalo and Krešimir Krolo, as our respondents. If around ... #CULCORC #MeDeMAP

I had a lovely chat with James Campbell, as part of the Intellect vodcast (called In Conversation), about life, universe and everything (and a bit about ECREA, IAMCR and the books we/I did with intellect), you'll find it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvGj... #culcorc

Another screening of our film essay AGON, this time in Budapest. Special thanks to the Institute of Marketing and Communication Sciences at the Corvinus University of Budapest, and in particular to Sabrina Pasztor, Milson Veloso and Tamás Bokor. More at constructionsofdemocracy.eu #culcorc #MeDeMAP

If you're around Budapest (Hungary) tomorrow, 23 April 2026 (at 10am): There is another screening of our film essay, AGON: Constructions of Democracy. It's a pre-conference of the 2026 Corvinus Communication Conference (CoCoCo). For more: see www.cococo2026.com #culcorc #MeDeMAP

Happy to announce the new article by #CULCORC member David Ongenaert and Marie Flügge, on "Constructing childhood in the Russian-Ukrainian War: UNICEF’s Instagram representations of children", in Media, War & Conflict. More at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The closing plenary of this year's SJTU-IAMCR conf in Shanghai... Again, a perfect organisation by Liangwen Kuo and his team ... One talk was by Xiaoling Zhang, who some years ago handled the Suzhou part of the IAMCR online/china conf. Two organisational masterminds united in one photo ... #IAMCR

Congrats to M. Kemal Dağdelen, for his new article on "Constructing the Discursive Frontiers", an analysis of how Turkey’s maritime borders are discursively constructed ... It's published in MONITOR ISH, and you'll find the issue (vol XXVII, num 2, summer 2025) at www.ish.si/publikacije/... #CULCORC

Today and tomorrow (at 3pm CET), our film essay AGON: Constructions of Democracy will be broadcast on the Öppna Kanalen Stockholm (the Swedish Stockholm open channel TV station). If you want to enjoy this broadcast, see oksplay.solidtango.com/live/live. The charms of TV flows still are unbeatable...

Pleased to hear that our "Democracy and media in Europe: A discursive-material approach" book has just been nominated for the Media and Democracy Karol Jakubowicz Award 2026. But what is even better is that we are in such great company, showing how well the media and democracy field is doing ...

Klára Odstrčilová just published in article for the European Journalism Observatory (EJO) about how the participants evaluated their experience of being part of the Czech Citizen Parliament on Media and Democracy. It's here: cz.ejo-online.eu/8023/nejnove... Enjoy the read! #MeDeMAP #CULCORC

Happy to announce the publication of an article by David Ongenaert, one of our CULCORC members, and his colleagues. The piece is on inclusive classroom practices, and uses Feminist Participatory Action Research. You can find it here: doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Special thanks to TLU for organising a screening of AGON today, and lots of kudos for Andres for doing all the work (and to Alessandro for the photograph) ... Happy to contribute to the dialogues about democracy ... #MeDeMAP #CULCORC

My warm congratulations to dr. Ali Dokumacı, for the successful defence of his PhD thesis on "The Discursive Constructions of the Home in Prague Student Dormitories and Hostels: Hegemony, Counter-Hegemony, and Liminality". (And thanks to Ali Minanto for the photos). #CULCORC #IKSZ #FSV #UK

The March 2026 newsletter of the Culture and Communication Research Centre (CULCORC) at Charles University is out ... If you want to know more about our work in the past six months, you can read about it here: culcorc.fsv.cuni.cz/culcorc-news... #CULCORC

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 #Färgfabriken

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 Švelch 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...

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...