The ESF Forward Look on Media Studies, conducted between 2012 and 2014, aimed to define, in discussion with science policy organisations, practitioners and other stakeholders, a common European research agenda that would begin to address the new research and policy challenges relating to media and communications. Four leading and critical areas of inquiry emerged in the Forward Look process. In a period in which coincident crises of economy, welfare, political participation, and private–public provision are all creating levels of uncertainty and social disquiet unknown in a generation in Europe, the role of the media in enabling, thwarting and transforming the nature of political engagement and citizenship is of critical concern. Furthermore, rather than acting as a democratising and levelling force, the diffusion of communication technologies may actually be causing what is broadly known as the digital divide to deepen rather than disappear; differences in access to and use of technologies do not only reflect existing social inequalities, in fact, they may also be an element in their reproduction. Digital media and communications technology have also been heralded as a new domain of and platform for creativity, allowing individuals to be producers and users of content and applications as never before. However, there remains much to understand about changes in content creation and the creative industries, and how they will influence cultural production, ownership regimes, business models, distribution systems and consumption practices, not to mention the economic implications of all these. Media are furthermore at once a resource, an environment and a vehicle for the construction, dissemination and expression of individual and collective identities. New media forms offer new possibilities, conditions and constraints for identity formation and association which are potentially changing the very nature of social interaction and the relationship between the physical and the virtual. It is urgent to develop research that investigates and understands the changes taking place and how they are affecting individual or collective identities and/ or promoting new forms of agency.
D.06 Final report on a foreign/international project
COBISS.SI-ID: 32647773Key-note address at the conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association, Istanbul, October 2012
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 31584093The ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School which started in 1992 is now a joint project of 22 European universities and the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Between 20 and 50 students in the mid-stage of their PhD projects have participated each year in the summer school in Grenoble, Madrid, Lund, London, Tampere/Helsinki, Tartu, Bremen, and Ljubljana (2010–2012). The main emphasis of this summer school is on providing structural and individuated PhD-support for young European scholars, through a variety of working forms, including feedback seminars, workshops, and lectures. In 2011, the Summer School has received a reward for excellence from Centre of the Republic of Slovenia for Mobility and European Educational and Training Programmes (CMEPIUS). Several members of our research team participated as lecturers in the Summer School.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
COBISS.SI-ID: 267892992The expertise offers scientifically based conceptual starting points for understanding provisions of protecting children and juveniles from harmful programme contents, as defined by the Mass Media Law (2006). It defines the criteria of determining the potential harm of programme contents as well as the levels and ways of protection, the guidelines for broadcasting these contents and proposals of their labelling.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 31071581Javnost/The Public. Splichal, Slavko (editor in chief, 1994-2012). Ljubljana: European institute for communication and culture, 1994-. ISSN 1318-3222. [COBISS.SI-ID 40119808]
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine