[ecrea] PhD course Comparative Media Systems: Audience Transformations

   Comparative Media Systems: Audience Transformations

Postgraduate course & research conference, Inter University Center, 
Dubrovnik, April 8-12, 2013


     Course directors:

Zrinjka Peruško, University of Zagreb

Slavko Splichal, University of Ljubljana

Snjezana Milivojevic', University of Belgrade

Carmen Ciller, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Kim Christian Schrøder, Roskilde University

Klaus Bruhn Jensen, University of Copenhagen


     Course description

In recent years the interest in comparative study of media systems has 
perked up within the field of media/mass communication studies. The 
course aims to contribute to this growing interest in understanding what 
shapes media systems and how they in turn shape societies. The course 
will address media systems in Europe and the world in relation to 
technological, economic, political, social and cultural changes that 
influence their development. The course will analyze these changes in a 
comparative way, engaging with recent methods of comparative analyses of 
media systems.

In 2013 the course will be focusing on changes in audience practices 
related to the changes in the media environment, technologies and 
contents, which in turn transform media systems. We will examine the 
results of recent and on-going pan-European comparative research 
projects on media audiences across different platforms, content 
(especially information), environments, and social uses, developed and 
discussed within the EU COST network action “Transforming Audiences, 
Transforming Societies”. The course will also host a methodological 
workshop with new insights into novel media audience research methods.

Each year the topic of the course will focus on one, or a combination, 
of areas which define media systems: media markets (including aspects of 
ownership structures, concentration, audience behavior and media use, 
etc.), media and state (including media policy and regulation), 
political parallelism (or the relationship of the media, journalists, 
and the political sphere, including political communication and 
political culture), and professionalization of the journalists and the 
media.

The Inter-University Centre was founded in Dubrovnik in 1972 as an 
independent, autonomous academic institution with the aim of promoting 
international co-operation between academic institutions throughout the 
world. Courses are held in all scientific disciplines around the year, 
with participation of member and affiliated universities.

A limited number of HESP/OSI scholarships are available for doctoral 
(PhD) students from selected eastern European countries.

To apply to this course and the scholarships go to: 
http://www.iuc.hr/course-details.php?id=734

For further academic information contact the organizing director 
professor Zrinjka Peruško, Centre for Media and Communication Research, 
Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, (zperusko /at/ fpzg.hr) 
<mailto:(zperusko /at/ fpzg.hr)>; www.cim.fpzg.unizg.hr 
<http://www.cim.fpzg.unizg.hr>; www.fpzg.unizg.hr 
<http://www.fpzg.unizg.hr>.