European Media and Platform Policy
THE PROJECT
The European Media and Platform Policy (EuromediApp) is an Erasmus Jean Monnet network dedicated to studying, analysing and discussing benefits and challenges of digital platforms in Europe and world-wide. Companies such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft are currently setting universal standards for online services, including media and communication. But their practices not always comply with European values such as openness, inclusivity, transparency, privacy, cooperation, and protection of data.
By bringing together knowledge and research capacity from all over Europe and beyond, EuromediApp provides space for national and transnational deliberation on how future digital services should and will be governed. Working papers, teaching material, workshops, conferences and dedicated schools for advanced students are our working tools.
Core partners of the EuromediApp are the Universities of Leuven (Belgium), Minho (Portugal), Padova (Italy), Budapest (Hungary), Kaunas (Lithuania), Helsinki (Finland) and Salzburg (Austria).
WELCOME!
Introduction
Josef Trappel, coordinator of EuromediApp at the University of Salzburg, introduces the network and invites scholars and the interested public to join. The network is academically hosted by the Euromedia Research Group, a longstanding working group on media policy.
THE PLAN
Modules
EuromediApp operates for three years (2020 – 2023) along three modules:
- European political democracy (inclusion and exclusion, diversity and uniformity, trust and distrust);
- the quality of European (news) ecology, including journalism, individualised procedures of political information, populism, polarisation and depolarisation, personalisation, scandalisation, information/propaganda/misinformation; and
- European governance models of digital media and the internet by media/platform companies and governments, utopian and dystopian views of digital media and democracy.
Workshops and conferences
Academic experienced professors work in teams with young and early-career academics in each module. Findings are discussed in interdisciplinary workshops at the university level by all partners. Furthermore, findings and results are taken to the national level, where three dissemination conferences with stakeholders are organised by the network in Leuven, Kaunas and Braga. Participants and addressees are (media policy) politicians, journalists, editors, academics, communication professionals, lobbyists, civil society representatives, activists etc.
Finally, in 2023, a European dissemination conference will be held in Leuven, Belgium, with input from the research work of the network members, addressing the European policy level, European parliamentarians, representatives of the European Commission, media companies and global platform players.
Summer and winter schools
In parallel, the network disseminates its work in two academic summer and winter schools, in Salzburg, Austria, and Venice, Italy, following an open call for participants. Outstanding academic staff from the network and beyond will teach at these summer and winter schools and give advice to PhD projects and other research projects in the field.
Audio-visual teaching material
Network members develop audio-visual teaching material based on the latest publication by members of the Euromedia Research Group, “Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe. Unpacking the Policy Cycle” (2018). All book chapters will be supplemented by professionally recorded audio-visual material produced by the network, and made available online in teaching units, available open access on this website.
Latest news
Xmas holidays meant revising EuromediApp Spring School applications 😅.
Tough decisions, so many interesting candidates! It's a real pity we can't have more participants.
But we are happy to have such a promising cohort! Results arrive in the next few days.
📢 Opportunity for PhD and master students!
After a highly successful Winter School, @EuromediApp offers a Spring School in Venice in April 2023.
1 week of input & training on how to make your voice heard in digital governance!
🎯 Apply by 23 Dec
Info: https://euromediapp.org/events/spring-school-european-democracy-and-emerging-communication-orders/
Glad to 've been in this year’s @EuromediApp Winter Sch'l in Austria. It is one day 2 the application deadline for next year’s Spring School on #Digital #Governance. A Masters or PhD student in Communication, Sociology and Political Science Apply https://euromediapp.org/events/spring-school-european-democracy-and-emerging-communication-orders/ #Venice
Only 3 days to apply!
PhD or MA student? Interested in digital governance and fundamental rights?
Don't miss the chance to participate in such a rewarding Spring School in Venice!
📢 Opportunity for PhD and master students!
After a highly successful Winter School, @EuromediApp offers a Spring School in Venice in April 2023.
1 week of input & training on how to make your voice heard in digital governance!
🎯 Apply by 23 Dec
Info: https://euromediapp.org/events/spring-school-european-democracy-and-emerging-communication-orders/
EuromediApp is back for MA and PhD students: Join us in Venice for this unique spring school. Update yourself in European platform governance. Great faculty, great students! Short deadline!
📢 Opportunity for PhD and master students!
After a highly successful Winter School, @EuromediApp offers a Spring School in Venice in April 2023.
1 week of input & training on how to make your voice heard in digital governance!
🎯 Apply by 23 Dec
Info: https://euromediapp.org/events/spring-school-european-democracy-and-emerging-communication-orders/
