🌐 Today, we join the global celebration of the Internet as a space of connection, knowledge, and collective transformation.
We invite you to revisit everything we’ve been building together over the past three years of the MeDeMAP project by exploring our website, where we gather our research, projects, publications, and ongoing contributions to understanding media for future democracies. 🔎 Discover our work here: https://www.medemap.eu/
🎙️ While the MeDeMAP project is now entering its final phase, the themes at the heart of our work are far from over. Media literacy, platform dynamics, and the ways people engage with information in digital environments remain urgent and evolving questions.
For this reason, we continue to invite you to explore our podcast series available here.
🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6vUGDE7dyJ1Hvjz3WhEMon?si=d576b5d942d64339
▶️ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MeDeMAP
As the MeDeMAP project approaches its final phase, we’re revisiting one of our key outputs: the Country Reports 📊
🔎 Dive into the reports and discover what’s shaping media systems today, and what it means for tomorrow. Explore them here: https://www.medemap.eu/?page_id=374
📺 The MeDeMAP film essay AGON: Constructions of Democracy was broadcast on 11 and 12 April on Öppna Kanalen Stockholm, an open-access TV channel based in Stockholm, Sweden.
This screening represents an important step in expanding the reach of MeDeMAP’s research and creative work, bringing critical reflections on democracy to wider public audiences.
📰 Read the full news here: https://www.medemap.eu/?p=1924
📢 Keynote
Nico Carpentier delivered an invited keynote at the SJTU-IAMCR Emerging Media Conference 2026 (Shanghai Jiao Tong University / IAMCR).
🔍 Focus: participation, empowerment & emerging media (#MeDeMAP).
🤝 Thank you, Mohammad Shahir Sharifi, for the picture!
📢 New article
A Brazilian article explores AGON: Constructions of Democracy by Ali Minanto, Nico Carpentier & Jhon Sany Purwanto in PNBonline
🎥 A film essay on democracy as a contested concept
Read the full article: https://pnbonline.com.br/nico-carpentier-ensaio-cinematografico-discute-os-desafios-da-democracia/
📢 Exciting news from MeDeMAP - our book Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach has been shortlisted for the 2026 edition of the Media and Democracy Karol Jakubowicz Award.
Read the full news here 👉 https://www.medemap.eu/?p=1921
🗳️ A new article from the European Journalism Observatory (EJO), authored by Klára Odstrčilová, explores how participants evaluated their experience of taking part in this initiative, drawing on in-depth interviews. It offers valuable insights into how citizens perceived the deliberative process, their level of engagement, and the broader democratic impact of the assembly.
📖 Read the full news here: https://www.medemap.eu/?p=1918
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