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CMC-Institutsdirektor Matthias Karmasin war zu Gast bei Niko Alm im Materie Podcast #9.

Das Community Medien Institut für Weiterbildung, Forschung und Beratung (COMMIT), der Verband Freier Rundfunk Österreich (VFRÖ) und das CMC-Institut der ÖAW und der Universität Klagenfurt laden zum dritten "Qualitätsdiskurs Community Medien", diesmal mit dem Schwerpunkt Irland, in die Wirtschaftskammer Österreich (WKO), 1040 Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 63.

Mr O’Neill is in Vienna for a month to conduct research on Karl Lueger, mayor of Vienna from 1897 until his death in 1910, and Lueger’s cult of personality as it developed in the newspapers of fin de siècle Vienna. While in Vienna, Mr O’Neill will be visiting a range of archives, including the Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv, the Wienbibliothek im Rathaus and the archives of the Karl von Vogelsang Institut.

The rapid diffusion of algorithms, robots and artificial intelligence is accompanied by public debates about applications and opportunities as well as emerging risks such as the loss of jobs, manipulation, security threats and violations of privacy. This raises questions regarding responsibility for damage and problematic impacts of automation. Media reporting on risks and responsibilities plays a central role in shaping public perception of automation. The project therefore investigated…

Die Fortbildungsseminare der Österreich-Bibliotheken im Ausland, die in Kooperation des Außenministeriums und der ÖAW veranstaltet werden, widmen sich heuer dem Thema des Zusammenhalts in Europa. Alois Humer, Stadt- und Regionalforscher an der ÖAW wird in einem öffentlichen Vortrag – ausgehend von der Geografie – kulturelle Aspekte von Integration und Abgrenzung innerhalb der EU beleuchten.

Female voices are still underrepresented in political news in Austria and journalism itself plays a crucial role for this asymmetry: Women's representation depends on journalists' own gender and on journalistic culture, while newsrooms' gender guidelines do not automatically ensure a fair gender diversity. These are the key learnings of a recent paper by CMC's Andreas Riedl, Tobias Rohrbach (University of Fribourg) and CMC's Christina Krakovsky. Austrian journalism has itself now…

The 2022 edition of the Media Pluralism Monitor was presented on June 30 in Florence. The Austrian Report sees a high risk for concentration of media markets and independence of ORF governance.

The concept of media accountability has originally been developed in the context of Western media systems. However, democratization processes around the globe have opened new spaces for media quality monitoring in countries formerly characterized by rigid press control. A new comparative study attempts to de-Westernize the debate about media accountability by offering a global view on recent developments.

In a European comparison, public broadcasting in Austria is associated with high reach and trust ratings. CMC’s Maren Beaufort argues that in order to maintain this strong and democratically relevant position, it needs an improved legal framework and the entrepreneurial and journalistic courage to face up to changing social expectations and new forms of media usage behaviour. Strategically, this means – in addition to a modernized organizational structure that safeguards independence…

Wer sind Österreichs Lokaljournalist:innen? Was treibt sie an? Und wie versuchen regionale Medienhäuser durch Innovationen, z.B. im Bereich Produkte oder journalistische Darstellungsformen, auch künftig für ihr Publikum relevant und attraktiv zu bleiben?

About one third of all Austrian journalists work in local newsrooms, and their topics are the most read editorial content. The democratic relevance of these almost 1,800 Austrian journalists and their reporting, however, has received little attention for a long time. Not least thanks to crises, local journalism is freeing itself from its hillbilly image and dresses traditional strengths into innovative garb.

The conference year started successfully for CMC researchers, which received multiple Best Paper Awards at national and international conferences.

New book offers comparative analysis of media accountability in 43 countries worldwide.

CMC’s Krisztina Rozgonyi and Marius Dragomir (Director of CMDS) give a lecture at Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (Berlin). The event will be held in English with German translation. In addition the lectures will be available as a livestream.

A statement of the Board of Trustees of the Academia Europaea

Edited by Matthias Karmasin, Sandra Diehl, and Isabell Koinig "Media and Change Management. Creating a Path for New Content Formats, Business Models, Consumer Roles, and Business Responsibility" (2022, Springer) provides an overview of the latest developments in change management for the media sector, discusses change management from interdisciplinary angles with an innovative focus on the media sector, and proposes innovative strategies to deal with the challenges of changing business…

Eine Einschätzung zur österreichischen Situation für die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in ihrer Reihe „Länderberichte zum Stand des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks“

In cooperation with the Polish Academy of Sciences Scientific Center in Vienna

14. & 15.Oktober 2021 (online)

Ein Symposium zu Ehren von Herbert Matis im Rahmen der ÖAW Veranstaltungsreihe Colloquium Digitale „Digitalisierung, Mensch und Gesellschaft“

The first in person meeting of the international project consortium took place in Tallinn.

As in 2020 and as a result of their work on the Media Pluralism Monitor, Josef Seethaler and Maren Beaufort also contributed to the European Commission's 2021 Rule of Law Report. A separate chapter of the report is dedicated to "MEDIA PLURALISM AND MEDIA FREEDOM".

The Media Pluralism Monitor 2021 (MPM2021) 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.

Aufgrund zahlreicher Anfragen und der nach wie vor unsicheren Situation im Zusammenhang der Corona-Pandemie hat sich das Organisations-Komitee entschieden, das Mediensymposium 2021 als reine Online-Tagung durchzuführen. Weil Online-Tagungen im Vergleich zu klassischen Präsenztagungen mit grösseren Ermü-dungserscheinungen verbunden sind, haben wir zudem beschlossen, das Mediensymposium auf zwei Tage zu beschränken. Es wird neu am Donnerstag 10.6. und Freitag 11.6.2021 stattfinden.

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Die von Studierenden organisierte Tagung (25.-27.11.2021) richtet sich an Wissenschaftler*innen von Bachelor- bis Praedoc-Niveau, die sich aus sozial- und geisteswissenschaftlicher Perspektive mit dem Themengebiet auseinandersetzen.

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.

Matthias Karmasin, who has been a Corresponding Member of the ÖAW /Division of Humanities and the Social Sciences since 2011, was elected to be a Full Member on May 14, 2021.

CMC Director Matthias Karmasin wrote about challanges for science communication and the media in the pandemic and beyond for the FWF Scilog

New project focuses on "Risk and Uncertainty in a Changing Mediascape" - researchers from more than 120 countries are involved