Présentation du département "Etudes & recherches" du CSA lors de la conférence "Transforming audiences, transforming societies", dans le cadre du programme européen COST (Belgrade, septembre 2013) http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/node/1029

1. A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE
ACADEMIC WORLD
Muriel Hanot
Director of studies & research
CSA (Belgium)
COST ACTION – BELGRADE 2013
« TRANSFORMING AUDIENCES, TRANSFORMING SOCIETIES »

2. SUMMARY
 1. The CSA (regulatory authority for
audiovisual media)
 2. Historical connections with academic world
 3. New ways of interactions
 4. Some examples of cooperation
 5. In conclusion

3. « LE CONSEIL SUPERIEUR
DE L’AUDIOVISUEL »
 independant
regulatory authority
for audiovisual media
in French-speaking
Belgium
 traditional
competences of a
national regulatory
authority (NRA)
 authorization, control
 recommandations of
general or specific
scope
 transparency /
information
 + analysis

4. competences
control recommandations information
informatio
n
analysis

5.  partners from the start
 an expertise from the outside
 for a study on a specific topic
(loudness, children participation,
political over-dramatization)
 in working groups (preliminary to
recommandations)
STUDIES & RESEARCH
Historical connections
with the academic world
CSA
AV
players
policy
makers
experts
civil
society

6.  scholars do restricted media research
 the CSA is part + observer
of the AVMS landscape
 how can we be better connected ?
STUDIES & RESEARCH
New ways of interaction

7. STUDIES & RESEARCH
New ways of interaction
AV
experts
players
civil
society
CSA
policy
makers

8. STUDIES & RESEARCH
New ways of interaction
 yearly prize of the best dissertation
 3 mandates of research
 a documentation center =>library
 internship for students
 a yearly conference with universities
 + a research team

9. SOME EXAMPLES
 CSA prize
 tax shelter, Belgian journalism and social networks,
community radio…
 3 months-research fellow
 call TV regulation, spectrum legal framework, young people
and new radio, development of Belgian TV production,
media diversity, connected TV…
 information center /library offers
 complaints, annual reports of private and public
broadcasters, TV monitoring…

10. STUDIES & RESEARCH
New ways of interaction
 to bring AV research closer to
the players’needs
 list « our » dissertation subjects
 research mandates : open issues
and chosen issues (by NRA or
players)
 lecture series (a cycle of
conferences)

11. TOPICS : AUDIENCES /
USES / PRACTICES
 all NRA centers of interest
 all the studies that allow a better understanding of
the media
 convergence (from old to new media)
 consummers protection (call tv, minors, baby tv)
 diversity (community media, links between
representations and audiences)
 …

12. IN CONCLUSION
 a Belgian case / the Belgian reality
 specific academic and AVMS scopes
 not enough means to commission studies
 new media, new uses, new
regulation framework?
 coregulation
 more accountability
 more media literacy
 more information
 => urgent need to understand media / audience / the way
audience understand media

13. muriel.hanot@csa.be
www.csa.be