This document discusses media pluralism in Central and Eastern Europe based on a presentation by Dr. Václav Štětka. It finds that many countries in the region have seen declines in media freedom and pluralism in recent years. Common issues include high concentration of media ownership, lack of transparency, political influence over public media, and threats to editorial independence. Countries like Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic are highlighted as having particularly concerning trends, such as political takeovers of public media and attempts to control independent outlets. Overall, illiberal populism is seen as a threat to journalists and trust in news media in the region. The document calls for the EU to do more to protect media pluralism and independence.
This document outlines the program for a conference on monitoring media pluralism in Europe. It discusses the Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM), which has assessed media pluralism in EU countries and others since 2014. The MPM uses a comprehensive questionnaire across four areas and 20 indicators to evaluate 200 variables from primary and secondary sources. It analyzes different types of legacy and digital media. A risk-based approach uses a traffic light system to indicate the level of risk to media pluralism in each country.
A presentation from Urska Umek at the Council of Europe on the Online and offline threats to media pluralism. Presented at the 2018 CMPF conference, Measuring Media Pluralism in Europe - Between Old Risks and New Threats.
Presentation from Lubos Kuklis of ERGA (European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services).
Presented at the 2018 CMPF Conference "Monitoring Media Pluralism - Between Old Risks and New Threats,"
A presentation from CMPF Director Pier Luigi Parcu, explaining the method behind the Media Pluralism Monitor at the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom.
Presentation by Damian Tambini at the 2019 CMPF Summer School for Journalists and Media Practitioners - Covering Political Campaigns in the Age of Data, Algorithms & Artificial Intelligence
This document discusses media pluralism in Central and Eastern Europe based on a presentation by Dr. Václav Štětka. It finds that many countries in the region have seen declines in media freedom and pluralism in recent years. Common issues include high concentration of media ownership, lack of transparency, political influence over public media, and threats to editorial independence. Countries like Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic are highlighted as having particularly concerning trends, such as political takeovers of public media and attempts to control independent outlets. Overall, illiberal populism is seen as a threat to journalists and trust in news media in the region. The document calls for the EU to do more to protect media pluralism and independence.
This document outlines the program for a conference on monitoring media pluralism in Europe. It discusses the Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM), which has assessed media pluralism in EU countries and others since 2014. The MPM uses a comprehensive questionnaire across four areas and 20 indicators to evaluate 200 variables from primary and secondary sources. It analyzes different types of legacy and digital media. A risk-based approach uses a traffic light system to indicate the level of risk to media pluralism in each country.
A presentation from Urska Umek at the Council of Europe on the Online and offline threats to media pluralism. Presented at the 2018 CMPF conference, Measuring Media Pluralism in Europe - Between Old Risks and New Threats.
Presentation from Lubos Kuklis of ERGA (European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services).
Presented at the 2018 CMPF Conference "Monitoring Media Pluralism - Between Old Risks and New Threats,"
A presentation from CMPF Director Pier Luigi Parcu, explaining the method behind the Media Pluralism Monitor at the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom.
Presentation by Damian Tambini at the 2019 CMPF Summer School for Journalists and Media Practitioners - Covering Political Campaigns in the Age of Data, Algorithms & Artificial Intelligence
Armin Rabitsch's presentation on the importance of social media in the electi...Vienna Data Science Group
This document summarizes Election.Watch.EU's social media monitoring efforts for the 2019 European Parliament elections. It monitored Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube from September 1-30 to analyze traffic and topics on party and politician accounts over time, as well as the impact of Facebook advertising. Election.Watch.EU partnered with data science groups and observed in 28 EU member states, making 16 recommendations including regulating political campaigns on social media and platforms providing data access to observers. It found right-wing populist movements successfully used social media and some countries introduced legislation and oversight for online campaigns.
Presentation by Federica Casarosa at the 2019 CMPF Summer School for Journalists and Media Practitioners - Covering Political Campaigns in the Age of Data, Algorithms & Artificial Intelligence
WeGov Generic presentation at the 1st Crossroad WorkshopWeGov project
WeGov participated at the 1st workshop of the Crossroad project (http://crossroad.epu.ntua.gr) entitled State of Play & Visionary Scenario Design Validation Workshop, on the 29th -30th April 2010, in Seville. The Workshop convened experts from several research areas, policy makers and practitioners in order to discuss and validate the results of the first phase of the project, namely the Analysis of the State of Play of Research in the domain of ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling and the Visionary Scenarios designed to explore how governance and policy modelling could develop at the horizon 2030.
This document outlines a project to develop tools to prevent and counter radicalization through participatory policies. It discusses analyzing data from social media and open datasets to understand radicalization trends and identify risks. The goals are to reduce domestic radicalization, promote security, and encourage citizen engagement with authorities. Functional requirements include entity extraction, sentiment analysis, and risk predictions to generate insights for policymakers. Visualization dashboards will display analyzed data and trends to support policy evaluation and development.
Future Research on Convergence and Social Media Oles Kulchytskyy
The information about global media discourses on social media regulation is prepared by the team of the COMPACT project (http://compact-media.eu/).
COMPACT is a Coordination and Support Action funded European Commission under framework Horizon 2020.
The objective of the COMPACT project is to increase awareness (including scientific, political, cultural, legal, economic and technical areas) of the latest technological discoveries among key stakeholders in the context of social media and convergence. The project will offer analyses and road maps of related initiatives. In addition, extensive research on policies and regulatory frameworks in media and content will be developed.
STATE OF THE ART: RESEARCH ON CONVERGENCE AND SOCIAL MEDIA Research Agendas ...Oles Kulchytskyy
This document summarizes research from over 1,200 academic articles on convergence and social media between 2013-2017. It aims to increase awareness of recent discoveries among stakeholders. The research found the dominant issue was integrating legacy and new media, followed by private vs public roles regarding personal data and protecting minors. Individuals and tech companies have become important news curators, but legacy media still produces most shared news. The document outlines research agendas on convergence types and regulatory issues like personal data, protecting minors, hate speech, and democracy. It concludes with recommending further reading in its full report.
Manufacturing consent and legitimizing austerity: The Greek Media Before And ...smyrnaios
1) The Greek media landscape underwent extensive liberalization and deregulation in the 1990s and 2000s, leading to a plethoric but precarious system with too many media outlets and journalists. Media ownership was highly concentrated among business tycoons connected to the political and economic establishment.
2) During the economic crisis beginning in 2009, mainstream Greek media failed to adequately investigate corruption, inequality, or warn of the coming catastrophe. Under austerity, the media promoted pro-austerity policies while voices critical of the Memorandum were suppressed.
3) In response, alternative media have emerged online and in print through citizen reporting and crowdfunding to provide diverse voices amid the dogmatic positions of mainstream pro-austerity
Read the 26th edition of Insights Brussels, our regular alert on key European Union policy developments from our team in Brussels. This issue covers new compelling initiatives related to the European digital market, to energy policies and financial services, all requiring bolder stakeholders’ engagement at the pan-European and national levels.
Learn about the latest policy developments with this monthly alert from our team in Brussels. For real-time updates, follow @MSL_Brussels or reach out to us on Twitter @msl_group.
9th TripleHelix: Politicians Twitter network - a case of S. KoreaHan Woo PARK
The document analyzes the Twitter network of 189 Korean politicians in November 2010. It finds that the network has high density and reciprocity due to social pressure for politicians to connect with each other on the platform. It also represents a network of public representation and political support, as the public can see relationships and popular politicians receive more connections. The research results show visualizations of the following/follower and mention networks between politicians on Twitter.
Position paper presentazione in occasione del workshop “USING OPEN DATA: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism” che si è tenuto il 19 e 20 giugno 2012 a Bruxelles
Territory, identity and citizenship: communicating the EUTom De Smedt
This document discusses the development of European identity and EU citizenship, as well as EU communication strategies. It notes that Eurobarometer surveys show European identity and belonging vary across countries and time. Legally, EU citizenship has developed through treaty revisions to complement national citizenship. Historically, EU communication was information from institutions to experts, but since the 1980s, rules require communication around structural funds interventions. With the fall of the Santer Commission in 1999, EU institutions opened to new symmetric communication approaches. Research focuses on a 'European public sphere'.
This document discusses leveraging big data to manage transport operations from economic and political perspectives. It begins by defining economic activity and political impacts. It then examines the micro-level economic perspective, how big data affects transport sector structure and business models. Potential big data benefits to economic actors are also discussed, including industry breakthrough and business model innovation. Next, the document analyzes big data's political impacts, how economic activity using big data can affect different actors' exercise of power and vice versa. Finally, it addresses leveraging big data to manage transport operations from a legal issues perspective, noting impacts of technical characteristics and multiple actors involved in the data value cycle.
The document summarizes the "For Diversity. Against Discrimination" information campaign by the European Commission that aims to inform EU citizens about their rights against discrimination. It describes the goals of the campaign, which include informing society about equal rights regardless of attributes and helping those facing discrimination. Target groups include organizations combating discrimination, those in the employment market, youth, media, and society overall. Various communication channels and activities in Latvia are highlighted, such as participation in community events and a seminar on employee rights. Results noted an increased acknowledgement of discrimination issues in Latvian society and some successful legal cases defending citizens' rights.
Social media has the potential to engage youth in politics but current use may not fulfill this potential. A study of Austrian students found that they hardly use social media for political purposes and see little political content. An analysis of Facebook posts by Austrian politicians and parties found that few directly addressed or mentioned young people, few were participatory in nature asking for comments or shares, and most did not provide reasoned arguments or facts. The questions remain as to whether social media can truly engage youth or serve as a distraction from political issues.
Politics of tweeting, tweeting of politics: The uses of social media by state...Brenda Moon
Paper by Julia Schwanholz, Brenda Moon, Axel Bruns & Felix Münch Presentation presented at the 6th European Communications Conference - ECREA, Prague 2016
This document discusses Facebook as a news source and its societal implications. It presents findings that 42% of Dutch citizens access news online through Facebook. It explores how Facebook personalizes the news experience through filters that can create "filter bubbles" and impact the public agenda. There are also implications for censorship and the role of journalism in an informed society. The document examines challenges in regulating Facebook and social media under existing media laws. It discusses issues of editorial responsibility for user-generated content on platforms.
DUF has campaigned on two levels to lower the voting age: creating debate among young people and within their member organization, and engaging in political lobbying. Their campaign has involved youth hearings in schools and theaters, educational materials, and participation in music festivals to discuss democracy with youngsters. They have also developed legal and statistical background documents, held parliamentary hearings and surveys, and garnered media coverage to lobby politically for lowering the voting age. Going forward, DUF plans to revitalize their campaign with a stronger European focus, public campaign, and emphasis on political lobbying.
MEDx.Care : EU Strategy for Digital Transformation in Cross-Border HealthcareMEDx eHealthCenter
The document discusses the EU's strategy for digital transformation in cross-border healthcare. It outlines 3 key areas of focus: 1) Citizens' secure access to and sharing of health data across borders through an electronic health record exchange format. 2) Better use of data to promote research, disease prevention, and personalized health and care, including building large genomic datasets. 3) Digital tools to empower citizens and enable person-centered care, such as cross-border healthcare via European Reference Networks. The overall goal is to improve health outcomes via digital transformation and data-sharing while protecting citizens' personal data.
This document provides information about a media study conducted as part of the PIREDEU project. The study involved content analysis of news coverage from television and newspapers from 27 EU member states during the three weeks leading up to the 2009 European Parliament elections. A total of 52,009 news stories were coded by 58 coders at two universities. The goals of the study were to analyze news coverage of the EU and elections, ensure the data could be linked to other PIREDEU studies, and establish an infrastructure for future election studies. The results will be made publicly available.
Armin Rabitsch's presentation on the importance of social media in the electi...Vienna Data Science Group
This document summarizes Election.Watch.EU's social media monitoring efforts for the 2019 European Parliament elections. It monitored Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube from September 1-30 to analyze traffic and topics on party and politician accounts over time, as well as the impact of Facebook advertising. Election.Watch.EU partnered with data science groups and observed in 28 EU member states, making 16 recommendations including regulating political campaigns on social media and platforms providing data access to observers. It found right-wing populist movements successfully used social media and some countries introduced legislation and oversight for online campaigns.
Presentation by Federica Casarosa at the 2019 CMPF Summer School for Journalists and Media Practitioners - Covering Political Campaigns in the Age of Data, Algorithms & Artificial Intelligence
WeGov Generic presentation at the 1st Crossroad WorkshopWeGov project
WeGov participated at the 1st workshop of the Crossroad project (http://crossroad.epu.ntua.gr) entitled State of Play & Visionary Scenario Design Validation Workshop, on the 29th -30th April 2010, in Seville. The Workshop convened experts from several research areas, policy makers and practitioners in order to discuss and validate the results of the first phase of the project, namely the Analysis of the State of Play of Research in the domain of ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling and the Visionary Scenarios designed to explore how governance and policy modelling could develop at the horizon 2030.
This document outlines a project to develop tools to prevent and counter radicalization through participatory policies. It discusses analyzing data from social media and open datasets to understand radicalization trends and identify risks. The goals are to reduce domestic radicalization, promote security, and encourage citizen engagement with authorities. Functional requirements include entity extraction, sentiment analysis, and risk predictions to generate insights for policymakers. Visualization dashboards will display analyzed data and trends to support policy evaluation and development.
Future Research on Convergence and Social Media Oles Kulchytskyy
The information about global media discourses on social media regulation is prepared by the team of the COMPACT project (http://compact-media.eu/).
COMPACT is a Coordination and Support Action funded European Commission under framework Horizon 2020.
The objective of the COMPACT project is to increase awareness (including scientific, political, cultural, legal, economic and technical areas) of the latest technological discoveries among key stakeholders in the context of social media and convergence. The project will offer analyses and road maps of related initiatives. In addition, extensive research on policies and regulatory frameworks in media and content will be developed.
STATE OF THE ART: RESEARCH ON CONVERGENCE AND SOCIAL MEDIA Research Agendas ...Oles Kulchytskyy
This document summarizes research from over 1,200 academic articles on convergence and social media between 2013-2017. It aims to increase awareness of recent discoveries among stakeholders. The research found the dominant issue was integrating legacy and new media, followed by private vs public roles regarding personal data and protecting minors. Individuals and tech companies have become important news curators, but legacy media still produces most shared news. The document outlines research agendas on convergence types and regulatory issues like personal data, protecting minors, hate speech, and democracy. It concludes with recommending further reading in its full report.
Manufacturing consent and legitimizing austerity: The Greek Media Before And ...smyrnaios
1) The Greek media landscape underwent extensive liberalization and deregulation in the 1990s and 2000s, leading to a plethoric but precarious system with too many media outlets and journalists. Media ownership was highly concentrated among business tycoons connected to the political and economic establishment.
2) During the economic crisis beginning in 2009, mainstream Greek media failed to adequately investigate corruption, inequality, or warn of the coming catastrophe. Under austerity, the media promoted pro-austerity policies while voices critical of the Memorandum were suppressed.
3) In response, alternative media have emerged online and in print through citizen reporting and crowdfunding to provide diverse voices amid the dogmatic positions of mainstream pro-austerity
Read the 26th edition of Insights Brussels, our regular alert on key European Union policy developments from our team in Brussels. This issue covers new compelling initiatives related to the European digital market, to energy policies and financial services, all requiring bolder stakeholders’ engagement at the pan-European and national levels.
Learn about the latest policy developments with this monthly alert from our team in Brussels. For real-time updates, follow @MSL_Brussels or reach out to us on Twitter @msl_group.
9th TripleHelix: Politicians Twitter network - a case of S. KoreaHan Woo PARK
The document analyzes the Twitter network of 189 Korean politicians in November 2010. It finds that the network has high density and reciprocity due to social pressure for politicians to connect with each other on the platform. It also represents a network of public representation and political support, as the public can see relationships and popular politicians receive more connections. The research results show visualizations of the following/follower and mention networks between politicians on Twitter.
Position paper presentazione in occasione del workshop “USING OPEN DATA: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism” che si è tenuto il 19 e 20 giugno 2012 a Bruxelles
Territory, identity and citizenship: communicating the EUTom De Smedt
This document discusses the development of European identity and EU citizenship, as well as EU communication strategies. It notes that Eurobarometer surveys show European identity and belonging vary across countries and time. Legally, EU citizenship has developed through treaty revisions to complement national citizenship. Historically, EU communication was information from institutions to experts, but since the 1980s, rules require communication around structural funds interventions. With the fall of the Santer Commission in 1999, EU institutions opened to new symmetric communication approaches. Research focuses on a 'European public sphere'.
This document discusses leveraging big data to manage transport operations from economic and political perspectives. It begins by defining economic activity and political impacts. It then examines the micro-level economic perspective, how big data affects transport sector structure and business models. Potential big data benefits to economic actors are also discussed, including industry breakthrough and business model innovation. Next, the document analyzes big data's political impacts, how economic activity using big data can affect different actors' exercise of power and vice versa. Finally, it addresses leveraging big data to manage transport operations from a legal issues perspective, noting impacts of technical characteristics and multiple actors involved in the data value cycle.
The document summarizes the "For Diversity. Against Discrimination" information campaign by the European Commission that aims to inform EU citizens about their rights against discrimination. It describes the goals of the campaign, which include informing society about equal rights regardless of attributes and helping those facing discrimination. Target groups include organizations combating discrimination, those in the employment market, youth, media, and society overall. Various communication channels and activities in Latvia are highlighted, such as participation in community events and a seminar on employee rights. Results noted an increased acknowledgement of discrimination issues in Latvian society and some successful legal cases defending citizens' rights.
Social media has the potential to engage youth in politics but current use may not fulfill this potential. A study of Austrian students found that they hardly use social media for political purposes and see little political content. An analysis of Facebook posts by Austrian politicians and parties found that few directly addressed or mentioned young people, few were participatory in nature asking for comments or shares, and most did not provide reasoned arguments or facts. The questions remain as to whether social media can truly engage youth or serve as a distraction from political issues.
Politics of tweeting, tweeting of politics: The uses of social media by state...Brenda Moon
Paper by Julia Schwanholz, Brenda Moon, Axel Bruns & Felix Münch Presentation presented at the 6th European Communications Conference - ECREA, Prague 2016
This document discusses Facebook as a news source and its societal implications. It presents findings that 42% of Dutch citizens access news online through Facebook. It explores how Facebook personalizes the news experience through filters that can create "filter bubbles" and impact the public agenda. There are also implications for censorship and the role of journalism in an informed society. The document examines challenges in regulating Facebook and social media under existing media laws. It discusses issues of editorial responsibility for user-generated content on platforms.
DUF has campaigned on two levels to lower the voting age: creating debate among young people and within their member organization, and engaging in political lobbying. Their campaign has involved youth hearings in schools and theaters, educational materials, and participation in music festivals to discuss democracy with youngsters. They have also developed legal and statistical background documents, held parliamentary hearings and surveys, and garnered media coverage to lobby politically for lowering the voting age. Going forward, DUF plans to revitalize their campaign with a stronger European focus, public campaign, and emphasis on political lobbying.
MEDx.Care : EU Strategy for Digital Transformation in Cross-Border HealthcareMEDx eHealthCenter
The document discusses the EU's strategy for digital transformation in cross-border healthcare. It outlines 3 key areas of focus: 1) Citizens' secure access to and sharing of health data across borders through an electronic health record exchange format. 2) Better use of data to promote research, disease prevention, and personalized health and care, including building large genomic datasets. 3) Digital tools to empower citizens and enable person-centered care, such as cross-border healthcare via European Reference Networks. The overall goal is to improve health outcomes via digital transformation and data-sharing while protecting citizens' personal data.
This document provides information about a media study conducted as part of the PIREDEU project. The study involved content analysis of news coverage from television and newspapers from 27 EU member states during the three weeks leading up to the 2009 European Parliament elections. A total of 52,009 news stories were coded by 58 coders at two universities. The goals of the study were to analyze news coverage of the EU and elections, ensure the data could be linked to other PIREDEU studies, and establish an infrastructure for future election studies. The results will be made publicly available.
This document discusses election monitoring and the backlash against it. It provides an overview of the key actors in election observation, including international and domestic observers. It then compares international and domestic observer missions, outlining their respective strengths and limitations. The document outlines common methods of election rigging before, during, and after voting days. It also describes tools used by observers to promote free and fair elections, such as civic education, methodology, and parallel vote tabulations. While the role of domestic observers has increased, the document argues that international election monitoring remains important in some contexts. It concludes by calling for effective cooperation between local and international observers.
Just a question of money? The political use of social media in HungaryGábor Polyák
The presentation will describe the sources and main characteristics of political content on social media, as well as the main players. The main point of the presentation is that Fidesz's media strategy, by which it has dominated a large part of the traditional media, is not successful in social media. The top-down logic, backed up by a lot of public money, produces at best a high reach, but does not fit the basic concept of social media. Independent actors critical of government are much more successful in political communication on social media with much less resources.
De EU is van plan om 'desinformatie' aan te pakken. Op hun bijeenkomst van 13 en 14 december 2018 riepen de EU-leiders op tot de snelle en gecoördineerde uitvoering van het gezamenlijk actieplan tegen desinformatie dat op 5 december 2018 door de Commissie en de hoge vertegenwoordiger werd gepresenteerd. De ministers bespraken welke onderdelen van het actieplan het dringendst zijn, hoe er samenhang kan worden aangebracht tussen de interne en de externe dimensies, en hoe het grote publiek bewuster kan worden gemaakt van desinformatie.
BLANCHARD & WOJCIK, Exploring the role of online political expression for...enpolitique.com
This document summarizes a research paper presented at a conference on political communication. The paper examines how French citizens engaged with online political tools and spaces during the 2012 French presidential election. It analyzes whether citizens preferred using tools created by political parties or independent spaces, and what the online political expression meant in terms of offline political participation like voting or political discussions. Preliminary survey results from over 800 French internet users who participated in the election campaign are presented.
The representation of minorities and indigenous peoples in parliamentDr Lendy Spires
The document discusses parliamentary representation of minorities and indigenous peoples based on a global survey conducted by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2009. Some key findings include:
- About 40% of surveyed countries reported using special electoral measures like reserved seats to facilitate minority representation in parliament. Reserved seats were the most commonly used measure.
- National rules like electoral systems and political party laws can significantly impact minority groups' ability to gain representation. Many countries restrict the formation of parties along ethnic or religious lines.
- Ensuring adequate minority representation in legislatures remains a challenge. Factors like electoral design, social contexts, and minority group characteristics all influence the
1) Until 2007, voting ages in Austria varied between federal states, with some allowing 16-year-olds to vote in local elections.
2) Analysis found that young voters in Vienna who could vote at 16 had high turnout rates, motivated by their right to participate.
3) Common arguments against lowering the voting age, like political immaturity, were found to lack evidence.
Carrots or Sticks: The Choice and Impact of EU Democratic Sanctions and AidPaulina Pospieszna
Both the provision of democracy aid and the imposition of sanctions are tools to promote
democracy. Yet, it is unclear under which conditions states choose to set positive or negative
incentives. In order to answer which tool—democracy aid or democratic sanctions—is more
effective, one has to analyse the actual form of the provision of aid. Sanctions and democracy aid
can also be employed at the same time. The goal of this study is to determine their joint effect on
democratization in recipient countries. We argue that sending civil society aid or democracy aid
channeled through NGOs and the civil society when sanctions are in place, enhances the
effectiveness of sanctions as a democracy promotion tool because the civil society can be
empowered to introduce democratic changes in its country—so additionally to the top-down
pressure created by sanctions, there is bottom-up pressure exerted by the civil society. Our results
suggest that democratic sanctions are more likely to be successful if democracy aid bypasses the
government in a target state. Conversely, other forms of aid provision tend to decrease the
effectiveness of sanctions. In order to precisely explain the joint impact of positive and negative
incentives on democratization, we employ a new comprehensive dataset on economic sanctions
for the period between 1989 and 2015 which integrates and updates the Threats and Imposition of
Economic Sanctions and the GIGA sanctions data sets, merged with disaggregated OECD aid data
and V-Dem as well as PolityIV democracy scores.
The European People's Party (EPP) and the Party of European Socialists (S&D) retained their majority in the European Parliament following the 2014 elections. Turnout declined sharply in some Baltic states. There was an ongoing adoption of American-style online campaigning and canvassing, but complete replication of the US model was constrained by differences in political systems and campaign finance rules. Far-right parties had some success but did not gain significant influence at the EU level. Euroscepticism remained a powerful driver for radical forces. National interests and opposition to EU migration policies were prominent issues, though family values and abortion were not major agenda items. Germany had the most influence in the European Parliament after the elections.
The document summarizes ANDI's strategy from 2000-2010 to increase media coverage of sexual violence against children in Brazil. Key aspects of the strategy included mobilizing journalists, monitoring media coverage, and building journalist capacity through investigative journalism contests. The strategy resulted in more frequent and higher quality media coverage of the issue, which raised public awareness and influenced policy discussions and responses to the problem. While making progress, challenges remain in fully addressing this complex social issue.
The document summarizes the findings of a media monitoring project in Myanmar from August 1 to September 15, 2017. It analyzes coverage in television, radio, newspapers and online media. Key findings include:
- State media and some private media devoted the most coverage to the government and military, portraying political actors positively.
- The National League for Democracy received the most party coverage.
- Coverage of the Rohingya crisis in Rakhine State largely reflected the government perspective due to access restrictions.
- International organizations accused Myanmar of ethnic cleansing, which the government denied. Some local media included more balanced international reporting.
Presentation by Christian D'Cunha at the 2019 CMPF Summer School for Journalists and Media Practitioners - Covering Political Campaigns in the Age of Data, Algorithms & Artificial Intelligence
This document provides an overview of polls and discusses several key concepts related to interpreting and reporting on polls. It notes that polling error can be expected to be around 2-2.2 percentage points on average and discusses how to identify reliable polls based on factors like the source, sample size, and methodology. It also explains important polling concepts like margins of error, confidence intervals, and how a poll of polls can provide a more accurate picture than any single poll.
Presentation by Luc Steinberg at the 2019 CMPF Summer School for Journalists and Media Practitioners - Covering Political Campaigns in the Age of Data, Algorithms & Artificial Intelligence
Presentation by Ula Furgal at the 2019 CMPF Summer School for Journalists and Media Practitioners - Covering Political Campaigns in the Age of Data, Algorithms & Artificial Intelligence
Presentation by Samantha Bradshaw at the 2019 CMPF Summer School for Journalists and Media Practitioners - Covering Political Campaigns in the Age of Data, Algorithms & Artificial Intelligence
Presentation by Anna Herold at the 2019 CMPF Summer School for Journalists and Media Practitioners - Covering Political Campaigns in the Age of Data, Algorithms & Artificial Intelligence
Presentation by Bernd Holznagel at the 2019 CMPF Summer School for Journalists and Media Practitioners - Covering Political Campaigns in the Age of Data, Algorithms & Artificial Intelligence
Presentation by Gabriela Jacomella at the 2019 CMPF Summer School for Journalists and Media Practitioners - Covering Political Campaigns in the Age of Data, Algorithms & Artificial Intelligence
Presentation by Wessel Reijers at the 2019 CMPF Summer School for Journalists and Media Practitioners - Covering Political Campaigns in the Age of Data, Algorithms & Artificial Intelligence
A presentation by Pier Luigi Parcu on Artificial Intelligence, elections, media pluralism and media freedom at the European Artificial Intelligence Observatory April 2, 2019
1) Economic consolidation in the digital advertising market poses a threat to media plurality as a small number of large tech companies like Google and Facebook dominate online advertising revenue.
2) Technological changes introduced by digital platforms could threaten quality of information by reducing the diversity of news sources and enabling the spread of disinformation.
3) The MPM 2020 project aims to update the existing Media Pluralism Monitor to better assess new digital-age risks to media plurality from factors like social media microtargeting, algorithmic news personalization, and filter bubbles.
UNESCO has developed the Internet Universality Indicators (IUIs) framework to assess national internet development environments. The IUIs are based on principles of Rights, Openness, Accessibility, and Multistakeholder participation. There are 303 indicators across 5 categories and 124 questions. The IUIs were endorsed by UNESCO's International Programme for the Development of Communication in 2018 to be used voluntarily by member states and stakeholders to conduct national internet assessments.
The document discusses a case study on using Twitter to disseminate the results of the 2015 Media Pluralism Monitor. It describes sorting 350 relevant contacts by country or area, tweeting them targeted messages about checking the Monitor's results. It also discusses using images in tweets to boost engagement and retweets, and analyzing website visits and newsletter signups from the outreach efforts. The goal was to effectively communicate research findings about media freedom risks across Europe.
This document discusses the pilot implementation of the Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) in 2013-2014. It summarizes the goals of simplifying and updating the MPM, testing it in selected EU member states, and improving it based on the testing. It describes conducting the pilot in 9 countries through a network of local institutions. The results were used to refine the MPM for further testing in 2015 across more countries.
Update and pilot implementation of the media pluralism monitor (MPM2014): Conclusions and recommendations for future implementations
Principles of simplification
http://monitor.cmpf.eui.eu/
Dr Sally Young
Associate Professor and Reader,
School of Social and Political Sciences,
The University of Melbourne
s.young@unimelb.edu.au
For an international audience, Australia is a case-study of what can go wrong in media policy-making and why media ownership concentration – including in the newspaper industry - still matters despite the rise of the internet and online news outlets.
more info:
http://cmpf.eui.eu/seminars/australia-media-ownership.aspx
This document discusses the importance of transparency in media ownership for democracy. It argues that mandatory reporting requirements are needed to identify the beneficial and ultimate owners of media outlets. Such requirements should apply to broadcast, print, and online media and collect basic information on ownership structure, financial accounts, and interests in other organizations. Media regulators should collect this information and make it publicly available to ensure transparency and prevent undue concentration of media ownership and political influence. Adopting clear rules and standards on ownership transparency is crucial to guarantee media pluralism.
This document discusses media markets and the internet. It describes media markets as two-sided markets with network externalities. The internet value chain is explained, along with competitive structures in web markets and characteristics like direct, cross-side, and indirect network effects that can lead to winner-take-all outcomes. Online advertising markets are summarized, including concentrations in search and mobile. Traditional and new sources of online information are compared, and business models for online news are outlined.
1) Wikileaks publishes classified documents from anonymous sources to reveal suppressed information, but nations argue this can threaten national security by exposing intelligence operations or strategic data.
2) There is debate around whether Wikileaks' releases serve the public interest or if they can legitimately withhold some information like defense plans or intelligence methods to protect national security.
3) International laws and ethics principles aim to balance security and transparency, but Wikileaks escapes jurisdiction and its releases are limited only by technological not ethical constraints, raising questions about developing global media standards.
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now and next
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11. 4) Media and democratic electoral process
9 countries (BE, BG, DK, FI,
DE, IT, LT, PT, SE) have some
kind of legislation or
guidelines that require
transparency of online
political advertisements.
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DE, IT, LT, PT, SE) have some
kind of legislation or
guidelines that require
transparency of online
political advertisements.