[Commlist] Call for participation in 11th Graduate Spring School & Research conference on Comparative Media Systems

Call for participation in the post-graduate course and research conference

*11th Graduate Spring School & Research conference on Comparative Media 
Systems*
co-organized with the ECREA CEE Network

*Balkans & Baltics: Media Peripheries, Media Centers?*

IUC, Dubrovnik, 17-21 April 2023

Two European regions with distinct positive and negative halo effects. 
Balkans with the pejorative “balkanization” attribute for disintegrating 
and non-cooperation, Baltics as the positive role model for successful 
regional cooperation and post-socialist transition. What can we learn 
from this opposition in terms of policies and practices in media and 
communication production and use?

With a long term lens of social and media development, both of these 
regions were at the periphery of Europe. While the western parts of the 
Baltic region today exhibit an unbroken growth and development, its 
eastern part had long periods of stulted development and decline under 
different Russian empires (including the Soviet Union). In the south, 
some parts of the broader Balkans regions historically were at or near 
the center of Europe – after Romans, in times of the Venetian rule, 
before becoming a semi-periphery under the Habsburgs or a far periphery 
under the Ottomans. These ancient times provide some early contextual 
similarities or differences. But what about the current times, 30 years 
after socialism collapsed in Europe? How can we evaluate media systems, 
organizations, and practices of producers and consumers in these two 
distinct regions? Are the regional labels useful, or do they conceal 
more that they explain? Is geography a useful determinant for a 
center/periphery status, or can the Nordic examples uncover some policy 
moves that contributed to the development of the contemporary media 
systems which exhibit many of the most useful characteristics for the 
informed and participating democratic publics.

We will explore ways to study change in media systems, focusing both on 
the temporal and spatial frames, and will examine transformations 
necessary in the political, economic and cultural fields. And we will 
examine which combination of historical conditions from the longue durée 
or more recently, are responsible for certain types of outcomes of media 
systems.

The course includes a one day hands-on methodological workshop on the 
design and implementation of fuzzy set QCA and the accompanying 
statistical analysis.

The course is organized by course directors from 7 European 
universities, who will also be among the lecturers:

Zrinjka Peruško, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Goran Bolin, Södertörn University, Stockholm
Carmen Ciller, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Epp Lauk, University of Tartu
Paolo Mancini, Università di Perugia, Italy
Slavko Splichal, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Miklós Sükösd, University of Copenhagen, Denmark


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