Next event:
'European Journal of Communication/ESF Symposium’, Cyprus, Friday 16 May 2014.
The University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences has published a special issue of "Javnost-The Public", Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture (EURICOM)
The authors introduce the European Science Foundation Forward Look Report Media in Europe: New Questions for Research
and Policy (2013) which summarises the conclusions and recommendations of a series of ESF workshops held in 2012 to draw up a strategic research and science policy agenda for media studies in Europe for the next 5-10 years. Download the pdf
The Final Conference took place on 24 and 25 January in Ljubljana (Slovenia)
For more information on the conference, click here
Thematic workshop 1 - Political engagement in an age of mediatization: enablers and constraints for democratic developments
Chairs: 
             Dr. Claudia Alvares, Lusofona University, Portugal  
             Prof. Peter Dahlgren, Lund University, Sweden
Date: 16-17 June 2012
Location: Lisbon 
 
Thematic workshop 2 - Creative economy or creative culture? Shaping and sharing of media content as a specifically economic or as a wider social resource
Chairs: 
             Prof. Ola Erstad, University of Oslo, Norway
             Prof. Gustavo Cardoso, Instituto Superior das Ciências
             do Trabalho e da Empresa, Portugal
Date: 18-19 June 2012
Location: Lisbon
 
Thematic workshop 3 – Digital divides and their relation to class, gender, generation, ethnicity and region
Chairs: 
             Prof. Hannu Nieminen, University of Helsinki, Finland
             Prof. Colin Sparks, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong 
  
Date: 7-8 June  
Location: Helsinki
Thematic workshop 4 – Identity-formation: from Facebook networks to institutional forms of cultural heritage
Chairs:
             Prof. Johan Fornas, Södertörn University, Sweden
             Dr. Charis Xinaris, European University, Cyprus
Date: 17-18 May 2012
Location: Nicosia, Cyprus