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📰 The September 2026 CULCORC Newsletter is out!

A particularly full issue reflecting CULCORC’s high level of academic activity and continued engagement with broader society.

🔗 Read it: culcorc.fsv.cuni.cz/culcorc-news...

#CULCORC #MediaStudies
September 30, 2026 at 3:33 PM
📚 Two weeks to go!

On October 14, Shomaila Sadaf (University of Jyväskylä) will present the next CULCORC seminar series, titled "Positioning and Othering in Social Media Discourse."

📅 14 Oct | 🕑 14:00 GMT+2
📍 H508, Voršilská

#CULCORC #SocialMedia #SocialMediaDiscourse
September 30, 2026 at 7:25 AM
A pleasure to look back at the hope (pre)conference in Prague, earlier this month. Congrats again to Vaia Doudaki and her team ... More at iamcr.org/s-wg/cjd/202... #culcorc #iamcr #ecrea
September 28, 2026 at 5:08 PM
The #CULCORC seminar series kicked off with David Ongenaert's (@davidongenaert.bsky.social) talk on (De)constructing Peace. Stay tuned for more engaging academic and intellectual discussions!

culcorc.fsv.cuni.cz
April 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Happy to share that today I officially started as a postdoc at CULCORC and the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism at Charles University in Prague. I am working on - very topical - peace discourses in the Russian-Ukrainian war, under the supervision of @nicocarpentier.bsky.social
February 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The fourth (and last) meeting of the Czech citizen parliament on media and democracy has begun. A day celebrating citizen participation ... #medemap #culcorc
May 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
📚 Looking back at ECREA 2026!

From 9 to 11 September, CULCORC researchers took part in the conference with seven contributions spanning peace, democracy, ecology, community media, identity, environmental journalism and more-than-human communication.

#CULCORC #ECREA2026
September 17, 2026 at 3:15 PM
📣 CULCORC at #ECREA2026

David Ongenaert (Charles University) presented research co-authored with Nico Carpentier on how peace was discursively constructed in Russian and Ukrainian news coverage.

📍 Geopolitics, War, and Media Session

#ECREA2026 #CULCORC
September 9, 2026 at 5:20 PM
#MeDeMAP panel on participation and knowledge at IAMCR Galway 2026 ... One happy convenor listening to great presentations. #CULCORC
June 29, 2026 at 8:37 AM
📣 CULCORC at #ECREA2026

Vaia Doudaki, Nico Carpentier & Miloš Hroch presented “Constructions of democracy in the Czech citizen parliament: Articulations and struggles,".

📍 Media in the CEE Between Autocratic Attacks and Democratic Resistance

#CULCORC #Democracy
September 10, 2026 at 10:50 AM
📚 New article by Jeffrey Wimmer in PR Magazin

“Vertrauen in den journalismus stärken?” draws on experiences from the #MeDeMAP project to explore how journalistic organisations can respond to distance, criticism and justified mistrust.

🔗 Read: prmagazin.de/wp-content/u...

#CULCORC
September 25, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Having fun at the ECREA conference in Brno, with a presentation on Transcending Anthropocentrism and the Moulding Nature exhibition. Apparently, this is my of entanglement ... #CULCORC
September 11, 2026 at 3:04 PM
📢 CULCORC invites you to a seminar with @davidongenaert.bsky.social on "(De)constructing Peace".

📅 30 April 2025, 15:00
📍 Hollar Building, Faculty of Social Sciences

Register here: forms.gle/8Poi3AeLhdyn...
March 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
📣 #Hope in the details

Elisabeth Wennerström (Charles University) explored how hope emerges in Swedish environmental journalism through resistance, dialogue and small-scale actions that challenge powerlessness amid environmental crisis.

📅 7 Sept | Prague

#CULCORC #ECREA2026 #IAMCR
September 7, 2026 at 11:17 AM
📢 Upcoming keynote

Nico Carpentier will deliver a keynote: "Critical Digital Studies: Acknowledging the Role of Digital Fetishism" at the 1st International Congress on Media and Communication at Yeni Yuzyil.

📅 23–24 November 2026
💻 Online

🔗 uyymik.yeniyuzyil.edu.tr/index-en.php

#CULCORC
September 25, 2026 at 2:17 PM
If you're around Budapest (Hungary) tomorrow, 23 April 2026 (at 10am): There is another screening of our film essay, AGON: Constructions of Democracy. It's a pre-conference of the 2026 Corvinus Communication Conference (CoCoCo). For more: see www.cococo2026.com #culcorc #MeDeMAP
April 22, 2026 at 12:35 PM
🌿 CULCORC at ECREA 2026

Nico Carpentier and Vaia Doudaki present “Transcending anthropocentrism: A discourse-theoretical analysis of Moulding Nature’s communicative-artistic tactics.”

📍 Session: More-Than-Human Communication

#ECREA2026 #CULCORC
September 11, 2026 at 3:23 PM
We'll have a new screening of AGON: Constructions of Democracy, on 5 June (4pm), at the Communication and Media Days 2026, in Split, Croatia. If you're around. If you want to know more about the film essay, see www.constructionsofdemocracy.eu #CULCORC #MeDeMAP #Democracy
May 21, 2026 at 3:22 PM
I had a lovely chat with James Campbell, as part of the Intellect vodcast (called In Conversation), about life, universe and everything (and a bit about ECREA, IAMCR and the books we/I did with intellect), you'll find it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvGj...
#culcorc
May 11, 2026 at 12:12 PM
This week at #CULCORC, we ran a PhD course on Discourse Studies and Method: Using Discourse-Theoretical Analysis and Discursive-Material Analysis.

Today, the last day, we couldn't resist the opportunity for a group photo. It was a pleasure to work with all of you, and I wish you the very best :)
November 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Today was the last day of the #medemap consortium meeting in Prague. After three days of discussions on democracy and media, we ended the session with a nice group photo. Special thanks to the MeDeMAP@CULCORC team, with Karolína Šimková, Vaia Doudaki, Miloš Hroch, Štěpán Šanda and Jeffrey Wimmer
March 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Fun at the away-days of the Portuguese research centre CICANT, with a talk on hope and democracy, and one case study on the Czech citizen parliament and one case study on a participatory arts project. Thanks to all present, for a (really) lovely discussion! #MeDeMAP #CULCORC #MISTRA #Färgfabriken
March 11, 2026 at 8:21 PM
📚 Book review by Yaroslava Kutsai, published in Mass Communication and Society journal

“Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power”

On climate narratives, media, and power 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#BookReview #Climate #MediaStudies #CULCORC
April 29, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Lovely panel at the "Communicating Narratives, Imaginaries and Epistemes of Hope" Conference, where I was in the great company of Ilija Tomanić Trivundža. Three cheers to Vaia Doudaki and team for a job well done, and to uxia for the photo. #culcorc, #iamcr, #ecrea
September 8, 2026 at 8:50 AM
📣 Reminder: Call for Audio/Visual Essays

The peer-reviewed Audio/Visual Section of Mediální studia / Media Studies welcomes audiovisual, film, video and sound essays.

📅 Deadline: 15 September 2026

🔗 medialnistudia.fsv.cuni.cz/en/call-for-...

#MediaStudies #CULCORC
September 1, 2026 at 7:45 AM