EMMA - European Media Management Association

EMMA - European Media Management Association emma is the academic association for the media management and media economics research comunity in Eu

emma is the academic association for the media management and media economics research comunity in Europe

You are welcome to join our next with Tobias Schmidt, TU Dortmund University, the winner of the emma Best Paper Award ...
23/09/2026

You are welcome to join our next with Tobias Schmidt, TU Dortmund University, the winner of the emma Best Paper Award 2026 🥇. The is going to be held online on Friday, 2 October at 12.30 CET.

Tobias Schmidt will present his paper:

“Between Alignment and Tension: How Media Management and Editorial Staff Shape Institutional Logics in the Use of Audience Analytics”

As Tobias was unfortunately unable to attend the conference, this will be the first opportunity to hear his paper presented.

We welcome everyone to join the and the discussion online.

Please register using the following link: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQAAAAAAAAAAAANAAowvLwlUNDBFSzhNMDVKRzk4TTdCTkg0UERLODU3US4u





Tomorrow, on September 11, is the roundtable on Platformised Media Industries: Infrastructures, Inequalities and Futures...
10/09/2026

Tomorrow, on September 11, is the roundtable on Platformised Media Industries: Infrastructures, Inequalities and Futures of Cultural Production at / ECC Brno conference!

It's co-organised by ECREA and EMMA - European Media Management Association. You are welcome to attend online on Zoom since the event is in a hybrid format!

Here are our major discussion areas:
🔹influencing media organisations, business models, visibility, and access to audiences;
🔹platform infrastructures and industrial dependence;
🔹algorithmic governance, production cultures and labour;
🔹inequalities, the public sphere and possible futures.

Save the date:
📅 September 11, 9.00am–11.30am
📍 K2 | 257 or ONLINE (LINK: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86708165242?pwd=Xj8lf7UH2lAtp1v0gq4KgdW7AckdKl.1)
https://ecrea2026brno.eu/
https://media-management.eu/

Participants:
• Chair: Castulus Kolo (former emma President)
• Members: Leona Achtenhagen (emma President), Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska (emma Vice-President), Eylem Yanardagoglu Kolo (emma Board Member), Ulrike Rohn (former emma long-lasting President), and Fredrik Stiernstedt (Chair of Media Industries & Cultural Production Section at ECREA).

See you there!

📣 emma joins ECREA 2026 / ECC Brno conference!For the first time in history emma is to co-organise the ECREA roundtable ...
25/08/2026

📣 emma joins ECREA 2026 / ECC Brno conference!

For the first time in history emma is to co-organise the ECREA roundtable “Platformised Media Industries: Infrastructures, Inequalities and Futures of Cultural Production”. You are welcome to attend on site or online since the event is in a hybrid format!

The session will introduce emma to the ECREA community (especially Media Industries & Cultural Production Section), bringing together researchers examining how platformisation is transforming media industries and cultural production.

Here are our major discussion areas:
🔹influencing media organisations, business models, visibility, and access to audiences;
🔹platform infrastructures and industrial dependence;
🔹algorithmic governance, production cultures and labour;
🔹inequalities, the public sphere and possible futures.

Save the date:
📅 September 11, 9.00am–11.30am
📍 K2 | 257 or LINK (TBA)
https://ecrea2026brno.eu/
https://media-management.eu/

Participants:
• Chair: Castulus Kolo (former emma President)
• Members: Leona Achtenhagen (emma President), Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska (emma Vice-President), Eylem Yanardagoglu Kolo (emma Board Member), Ulrike Rohn (former emma long-lasting President), and Fredrik Stiernstedt (Chair of Media Industries & Cultural Production Section at ECREA).

We look forward to this exciting event which is a great opportunity to develop closer cooperation between emma and ECREA.

See you there!

The IAMCR 2026 Conference at the University of Galway, Ireland, is coming to an end. It has been a fruitful engagement o...
01/07/2026

The IAMCR 2026 Conference at the University of Galway, Ireland, is coming to an end. It has been a fruitful engagement on platformization, media production and political economy in the emma round table on "Glocal Grounds and Platform Pathways". emma members brought perspectives on this topic from Germany, Finland, Poland, Portugal and Türkiye.

Thank you to the chair of the round table and one of the speakers Harald Rau (Ostfalia - University of Applied Sciences), the speakers Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska (University of Warsaw), Katja Lehtisaari (Tampere University), Paulo Faustino (Universidade do Porto) and the convenor of the round table and one of the speakers Eylem Yanardagoglu Kolo (Macromedia University of Applied Sciences)! We are grateful to the vice-president of Karen Arriaza Ibarra (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) for being the discussant of the round table! Your insights will lay the basis for future academic collaboration! 👏

We thank Co**ha Edo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and María Teresa Nicolás Gavilán (Universidad Panamericana) for the opportunity to establish closer links between and . We thank the President of Daya Thussu (Hong Kong Baptist University) and the executive director of Salvatore Scifo for the warm welcome! 🤩

Thank you, !

This is the beginning of further collaboration between the two academic communities! 😊






💡 Tomorrow is emma roundtable at on Glocal Grounds and Platform Pathways. Welcome to attend and engage in the discussi...
29/06/2026

💡 Tomorrow is emma roundtable at on Glocal Grounds and Platform Pathways. Welcome to attend and engage in the discussion if you are at in and are interested in and political economy.

The speakers are going to discuss independent producers' and public service media broadcasters' dependency on tech platforms, the precarious working conditions and the erosion of professional identity of media professionals, as well as how policy can mitigate platform power. If you are interested in these topics, welcome to reach out to the speakers:

🔊 Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska, emma vice-president (University of Warsaw – Poland);
🔊 Eylem Yanardagoglu Kolo, emma board member (Macromedia University of Applied Sciences – Germany);
🔊 Harald Rau, emma member (Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences - Germany)
🔊 Katja Lehtisaari, emma member (Tampere University - Finland);
🔊 Paulo Faustino, emma member (University of Porto - Portugal).

emma roundtable will take place on Tuesday, 30 June at 16:00 at Alumni Plaza / Human Biology Building, University of Galway.




Are you attending IAMCR conference in this year? We are pleased to inform you that emma is hosting a round table at th...
23/06/2026

Are you attending IAMCR conference in this year? We are pleased to inform you that emma is hosting a round table at the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) on the topic of Glocal Grounds and Platform Pathways Participants on June 30, 2026 featuring:

🔊 Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska, emma vice-president (University of Warsaw – Poland);
🔊 Eylem Yanardagoglu Kolo, emma board member (Macromedia University of Applied Sciences – Germany);
🔊 Katja Lehtisaari, emma member (Tampere University - Finland);
🔊 Harald Rau, emma member (Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences - Germany);
🔊 Paulo Faustino Faustino, emma member (University of Porto - Portugal).

The round table will be chaired by 🔊 Harald Rau, emma member (Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences - Germany);
🔊 Karen Arriaza Ibarra, vice-president of IAMCR (Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Spain) will be the discussant of the round table.

This emma-sponsored roundtable examines platformization as a governing force in contemporary media production. Aligning with the IAMCR 2026 theme, "Peripheries and Connections," the session treats platforms as socio-technical infrastructures that redistribute power, visibility, and risk across global and local contexts.

Join the round table if you are at IAMCR and follow us for more information!




It's a wrap! 🎇 has come to an end, but the memories will live on! Päivi Maijanen, Amanda Piepponen, Azzurra Morreale ...
01/06/2026

It's a wrap! 🎇

has come to an end, but the memories will live on!

Päivi Maijanen, Amanda Piepponen, Azzurra Morreale - a fantastic team who organized an academically excellent and fun conference! Your attention to detail and strategic vision are impeccable. Thank you for your time, effort and dedication that you put for months into making happen! The community is truly thankful to you! You are brilliant! ❤️‍🔥You are the GOATs!🔥

emma thanks LUT University Business School for hosting us - you have a fantastic campus and people! You made us feel truly welcome, shared your local culture and made our stay enjoyable! Thank you Juha-Matti Saksa, Kaisa Pekkala, Jarno Pasonen, everyone in logistics, technology, events and wonderful student assistants!

Here are the winners of the emma Best Paper competition:

🏆 BEST PAPER award goes to Tobias Schmidt, TU Dortmund University for the paper "Between Alignment and Tension: How Media Management and Editorial Staff Shape Institutional Logics in the Use of Audience Analytics". Congratulations, Tobias!

🏆 BEST PAPER runner-up award goes to Jan Manicki, University of Warsaw for the paper "Shared Worlds, Fragmented Experiences? Perceptions of Cultural Coherence in Human-Designed and Procedurally-Generated Game Environments". Congratulations, Jan!

🏆 BEST PAPER PRESENTATION award goes to Niina Sormanen, LUT University for the paper "Modern Methods of Constructive Journalism: Short Documentaries as Journalistic Education Materials and Participation Tools for Young People". Congratulations, Niina!

Congratulations, Camilla Gatti, Sapienza Università di Roma for winning the emma conference grant! 👏

Thank you emma board Leona, Anna, Päivi, Elena, Robin, Dinara, Ivana, Eylem!

Thank you to every member of the emma community for your spirit - YOU make emma so special! 💖

Here is a line up of future emma events - something to look forward to and add to your calendars! 📆 😃

⛳ The next emma conference in 2027 will be hosted by the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies of the University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania on June 9-12, 2027. The theme is "Managing Media Responsibility in Changing Media Ecosystems." The conference will be organized by the team led by Anca Anton.

⛳ The next emma Doctoral Summer School in 2027 will be hosted by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany on August 16-20, 2027. The summer school will be organized by the team led by M. Bjørn von Rimscha.

⛳ And the closest event to happen is the ! 2026 will be hosted by the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Croatia on November 12-13, 2026. The theme is "Youth and Media Management: Between Content Creators and Audience".

Looking forward to seeing you at the next emma events! With love, emma! 🤗





Text: Dinara, emma Comms
Photos: Tommi Kärkkäinen, LUT

As continues, here is a sneak peak at how the feedback-based PhD workshop and Paper Development Workshop went. First, ...
27/05/2026

As continues, here is a sneak peak at how the feedback-based PhD workshop and Paper Development Workshop went.

First, preparation is key. Coming to the session prepared for all parties and reading the colleagues' research papers helps to build a compelling discussion tailored to the needs of each participant. As one knows, different universities have different rules for awarding PhD degrees in regards to the format of the manuscript, the number of publications, as well as previous experience. Thinking strategically about further post-PhD employment opportunities also helps. Hence, the feedback based on a case-by-case basis is a way to go! 🤩

Second, a strong team of mentors Leona Achtenhagen, M. Bjørn von Rimscha, Bianca Harms, Mart Ots, Ari Jantunen, Jukka Huhtamäki, Tom Evens and Minna Koivula who share the same mindset about encouraging some amendments to the work in progress by lifting up and inspiring researchers is needed. Here at the spirit is very good, and discussions are held in a flat hierarchy style! How nice! 🫶

Third, the coffee breaks really help to catch up with other scholars and meet the new faces. They say, the innovation is planned but sometimes it also happens spontaneously. Thankful to the organisers of Päivi Maijanen, Amanda Piepponen, Azzurra Morreale, Jarno Pasonen and Kaisa Pekkala for this opportunity! ☕

Thanks to all participants of the workshops, both the tutors and the researchers! 🥰 It is really fun! You are doing a great job!

has kickstarted this morning at LUT University! 🤩 It is so nice to welcome emma conference attendees from different co...
27/05/2026

has kickstarted this morning at LUT University! 🤩

It is so nice to welcome emma conference attendees from different countries, different academic institutions. Very much looking forward to the next few days filled with presentations, debates and collaboration, and coffee ☕ !

And what is happening today? At the emma PhD workshop, Maria Arango Kure of Media, Management and Transformation Center, Jönköping International Business School and Jukka Huhtamäki of Tampere University and LUT University are leading the methods session "From Digital Data to Meaningful Analysis". 📈 Maria and Jukka shared insights of their ongoing projects that are based on computational analysis. The variety of topics covered in social sciences and computer sciences and the level of methodological depth is inspiring! With many questions from the audience, who are the PhD students from many European universities, the session has raised the curiosity from the very start with the big question - how can we use data for media management research? 🗣️

After this debate-setting discussion, the emma PhD workshop continued with the feedback-based workshop. The participants of the workshop who have submitted their work in progress to the in advance received in-depth, tailored feedback from mentors Leona Achtenhagen, Tom Evens, Bianca Harms, Jukka Huhtamäki, Ari Jantunen, Minna Koivula, Maria Arango Kure, Mart Ots and M. Bjørn von Rimscha. 🫶

And this afternoon, there was a Paper Development Workshop for the participants who are aiming to develop their full paper for publication at the Journal of Media Business Studies (JOMBS). The workshop is organised by emma representative at JOMBS Bianca Harms of NHL Stenden. And the tutors for the session will be Leona Achtenhagen, Tom Evens, Bianca Harms, Päivi Maijanen, Mart Ots and M. Bjørn von Rimscha. Thank you to the participants and tutors for their contribution to shaping the cutting edge media management research! 🤝

Last but not least, I would like to mention the amazing conference organisers and the hosts Päivi Maijanen, Kaisa Pekkala, Jarno Pasonen, Azzurra Morreale and Amanda Piepponen 🥳

📢 Join our next : Academic Career Pathways: Support, Inclusion and Sustainability📅 15 May, 12:30 CEST💻 OnlineThe will...
05/05/2026

📢 Join our next : Academic Career Pathways: Support, Inclusion and Sustainability
📅 15 May, 12:30 CEST
💻 Online

The will discuss the challenges affecting early-career and mid-career researchers in the media management community. These challenges include - for example - short-term contracts and limited job security, as well as the cumulative pressures associated with publishing, securing funding, teaching, international mobility, and maintaining personal well-being in an increasingly competitive academic environment.

Our speakers are:
🟢 Päivi Maijanen-Kyläheiko, Associate Professor at LUT University Business School.
🟢 Denise Voci, senior scientist at the University of Klagenfurt.
🟢 Katja Leifheit, external doctoral candidate at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and research associate at Stuttgart Media University.
🟢 David Simões, PhD candidate at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and research assistant at Stuttgart Media University.

This is moderated by Ivana Kostovska, senior researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and emma Board member.

Registration is required: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQAAAAAAAAAAAANAAowvLwlUNDBFSzhNMDVKRzk4TTdCTkg0UERLODU3US4u

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