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CMC, in cooperation with the Research Institute for the Public Sphere and Society at the University of Zurich, hosts a preconference on "Media Performance and Social Inclusion" at the 71st Annual ICA Conference. The preconference aims at intensifying the discussion on democratic media performance, initiated by two successful ICA preconferences in 2016 and 2017, by focusing on how media should act to support the inclusion of people in a diverse democratic society, and how media actually…

Große Internet-Plattformen wie Facebook, Amazon, YouTube und TikTok erlangen immer mehr wirtschaftliche Macht und Einfluss auf gesellschaftliche Kommunikation. Die interdisziplinäre Tagung "Internet-Plattformen für Europa“ geht deshalb der Frage nach, wie sich digitale Dominanz aktuell entwickelt und welche regulatorischen Reaktionen sich für Europa anbieten, um fairen Wettbewerb und digitale Souveränität sicherzustellen.

We wish you all the best for Christmas and the New Year and will be back on Jan 4, 2020.

In cooperation with the Polish Academy of Sciences in Vienna (PAN), CMC supports the conference “Juridification of History – between Collective Memory, Historiography and Politics of Memory”.

Thema: "Future in Progress – Kritische Perspektiven auf Wandel und Fortschritt"

Programm: https://underdocs.univie.ac.at/programm-2020/

Website: https://underdocs.univie.ac.at/

Aufgrund der aktuellen Pandemie wird die Fachtagung ausschließlich online über Zoom stattfinden!

In its first "Rule of Law"-Report, the Commission states that "Austria allocates relatively high levels of state advertising to media companies, and concerns were raised over potential political influence over such allocation, in the absence of rules on its fair distribution". CMC contributed to the report with its expertise.

CMC Director Matthias Karmasin has been awarded the Cross of Honour for Science and Art 1st Class. Congratulations!

As the Corona crisis permeates all areas of life, CMC researches Matthias Karmasin, Tobias Eberwein, Andy Kaltenbrunner, Andreas Riedl, and Josef Seethaler have reflected in various comments on the media´s role in the pandemic, current media politics, and the impact the crisis has on journalists and the Austrian media landscape at large.

Eine gemeinsamer Online-Workshop vom COMMIT, dem Verband Freier Rundfunk Österreich, der RTR und dem CMC zu Qualitätsentwicklung und -sicherung in Community Medien anhand der Erfahrungen aus der Schweiz. Anmeldung ab sofort möglich!

Diskussion mit CMCs Josef Seethaler, Golli Marboe (VsUM), Nadja Hahn (Ö1) & Ursula Maier-Rabler (Universität Salzburg) über Soziale Medien, politische Kommunikation uvm. auf "radio klassik Stephansdom"

A project of CMC´s "Media, Politics & Democracy" group looks into quality indicators of media in democratic societies and currently finds that media output in Austria often fails to contextualize facts in a meaninful way for audiences.

The Media Pluralism Monitor 2020 (MPM2020) is a scientific and holistic effort to document the health of media ecosystems, detailing threats to media pluralism and freedom in European Union member states and some candidate countries.

Neue Studie von Josef Seethaler (CMC) und Helmut Peissl (COMMIT), die sich den seit 1998 in Österreich zugelassenen Freien Radios widmet und diese insbesonders in Hinblick auf den Public Value, also gesellschaftlich relevanten Wert und Wirkung, untersucht.

Nichtkommerzieller Rundfunk deckt den Bedarf nach lokaler Information, Kommunikation und Community Building. Dass der Ausbau aus demokratiepolitischer Sicht wichtig ist, legt eine aktuelle Studie der ÖAW nahe.

"Who 'owns' the climate crisis? Issue competition and issue reframing in the 2019 Austrian election campaign." - as an Online Event at uniport/Universität Wien.

Update: Publication to accompany the ÖAW conference „Global Sustainable Development Goals in a Mediatized World”, April 4&5, 2019 out now!

UPDATE: Step-by-step return to office operations

Eine empirische Erhebung und eine repräsentative Befragung. Von Andy Kaltenbrunner, Renée Lugschitz, Matthias Karmasin, Sonja Luef, Daniela Kraus, 2020.

CMC wishes a very "Happy Birthday" and is looking forward to the many events celebrating the anniversary in 2020.

Find us at: Vordere Zollamtsstraße 3, 3rd Floor; 1030 Vienna (U3/U4/S-Bahn Landstraße - Wien Mitte)

The Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (Austrian Academy of Sciences | Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) and the Department of Communication (University of Vienna) invite you. #napoko19

From November 6 to 8, 2019 the 4th conference of the Interdisciplinary Media Ethics Center (IMEC) was hosted by the University of Klagenfurt. In two keynotes and five panels the participants explored the relationship of ethics and law in the mediatized world. At the end of the event, the Interdisciplinary Media Ethics Center (IMEC) was founded as a registered society.

Official introduction of new Academy members at the Annual Conference in Barcelona (Oct 23-24, 2019).

Prof. Dr. Barbara Thomaß (Institut für Medienwissenschaft, Ruhr Universität Bochum) über die Herausforderungen und Möglichkeiten des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks in der digitalisierten (Medien)Welt.

by Andy Kaltenbrunner et. al. A new publication tackles the question of who belongs to a fast-changing profession in the wake of the first comprehensive survey of Austrian journalists in over a decade.

Neuer CMC-Forschungsbericht zur Inhaltsregulierung auf Internet-Plattformen von Florian Saurwein und Charlotte Spencer-Smith

Matthias Karmasin, Tobias Eberwein and Florian Saurwein have summed up their recent comparative study on European Public Broadcasters. (German only)

A recent CMC-project was concerned with agenda setting, conversation strategies and media logic in the political talk format “ORF Sommergespräche” between 1981 and 2016. Project staff Andreas Riedl talked about the main findings in “Zeit im Bild” and “Mittag in Österreich” on ORF2.

Edited by Tobias Eberwein, Susanne Fengler & Matthias Karmasin