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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!

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.

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

Edited by Maren Beaufort The book assesses the interplay between social media, political polarization, and civic engagement, focusing on countries with differing media environments, cultural specifics, and degrees of democratization.

Die erste länderübergreifende Bestandsaufnahme des Journalismus, hrsg. von Thomas Hanitzsch, Josef Seethaler und Vinzenz Wyss

Maren Beaufort and Josef Seethaler are among the authors of "Voices", the 2018 ICA Annual Conference Theme Book

Teil der CMC-Vortragsreihe "Medienpolitik - neu denken"

Edited by Tobias Eberwein, Matthias Karmasin, Friedrich Krotz & Matthias Rath

By Marie-Isabell Lohmann and Andreas Riedl

By Josef Seethaler and Gabriele Melischek