Center for Media, Data and Society - CMDS

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT 📣

As per October 2022, CMDS commenced its operations under the name Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) independently of CEU. This Facebook account is an archive of projects conducted by CMDS as a CEU unit and will not be updated.

📢We are happy to invite members of media organizations, labor activists, students, researchers and members of civil society organizations to a one and a half day workshop taking place at CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest, Hungary in October!

💣We'll talk about organizing into unions, networks, associations and communities to push forward the rights of journalists and to protect the freedom of the media.

✏️We encourage participants to pitch their ideas for the peer-to-peer sessions and to apply for travel support asap.

👉Check out the call for interest here: https://cmds.ceu.edu/article/2022-09-07/call-interest-workshop-organizing-media-field

✊Read here our latest blog entry on how the Trade Union of Croatian Journalists is organizing to increase its membership and to fight for a collective agreement for all media workers in the country.

Organizing Labor. New Forms of Solidarity of the Trade Union of Croatian Journalists by Petra Ivšić

📚Weekend Read 📚
Many journalists are working in small, independent media organizations and are formally part of the non-profit sector.
✊So, we asked Sindikat SKUPA, the Trade Union Collective of United Precarious Workers and Activists in Croatia, to share their experience in organizing and fighting for their rights.
📍Check out the article on our Medium blog:

There Will Always Be Power In A Union! by Sandra Kasunić

📚Weekend Read 📚

Our Fellow Courtney Radsch examines the weaponization of state-aligned information operations and online harassment, their gendered dimension and AI's role, in a new report for OSCE.

https://cmds.ceu.edu/article/2022-08-05/courtney-radsch-writes-osce-report-ai-and-state-aligned-disinformation-campaigns

Read our latest blog entry on how a feminist podcast collective from Madrid is continuously changing and learning from their guests and political allies. Media production is a political act. Sangre Fucsia and Página: Territorio Doméstico are showing how an activist community can foster new forms of organization and content production inside media groups.

Sangre Fucsia and Territorio Doméstico. Political Alliances for a more Equal and Fuchsia Society by Valentina Longo, Sangre Fucsia

🔥 Our Fellow Julia Sonnevend was guest of the week on popular Hungarian video podcast Friderikusz Podcast. She talked about her life and work, incl. her research on Orban's charm.
🇭🇺 Speak Hungarian? Watch the interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i-23zV6KgQ
👉 Alternatively, check out our recap: https://cmds.ceu.edu/article/2022-07-26/julia-sonnevend-talks-about-her-life-and-work-popular-hungarian-podcast

📚 Weekend read 📚
We've collected all five Media Reform UK policy briefings on the UK media, published between January and June 2022, based on research for the Media Influence Matrix: UK report, in one document.
Read about:
☑️ the most important current issues in UK media policy;
☑️ the BBC licence fee;
☑️ the Online Safety Bill (by Julian Petley);
☑️ the DCMS white paper on broadcasting;
☑️ the economic dynamics of the UK media (by Eliz Mizon).

https://cmds.ceu.edu/article/2022-07-22/uk-media-policy-briefings-collected

🎉Congratulations to CMDS Fellow Sejal Parmar on starting an Economic and Social Research Council fellowship at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.

✔️She will work on foreign policy and disinformation.

👉 https://cmds.ceu.edu/article/2022-07-19/sejal-parmar-starts-fellowship-uk-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office

✊We stand in solidarity with Des Freedman and Gholam Khiabany.

Please read and sign: “As an international academic community we believe that Prof Des Freedman and Dr Gholam Khiabany should be reinstated in their roles with immediate effect and provided with an appropriate apology. Indeed, not to do so will bring Goldsmiths University of London into international disrepute.”

Reinstate Des Freedman and Gholam Khiabany To Frances Corner, Warden of Goldsmiths We are academics from around the world writing to express our shock and outrage at the news that Prof. Des Freedman and Dr Gholam Khiabany, Head of Department and Deputy Head of Department of the department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Gold...