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Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · 5h

There are still a few seats left for the première of AGON: Constructions of Democracy, on October 23, 2025, in Kino NFA Ponrepo, in Prague.

You can register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

For more information about the film essay, see constructionsofdemocracy.eu

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · 6d

Amnesty International Belgium delivered 10,787 signatures to the Azerbaijani Embassy demanding the release of activists, academics, and journalists imprisoned there. Bahruz Samadov, a PhD student at Charles University, is one of them. Special thanks to AI for keeping his cruel destiny on the agenda.

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · 7d

On 8 October we had another round table on democracy and media in Europe, this time in collaboration with CICANT, in Lisbon. The report is here: cicant.ulusofona.pt/agenda-news/...

Lusófona's academic community reflects on Media-Democracy relations within CICANT's 20th anniversary event - CICANT Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies

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Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · 8d

I wrote it ;) you'll find it here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

Democracy and Media in Europe | A Discursive-Material Approach | Nico

Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach is a theoretical reflection on the intersection of democracy and media through a constructionist

www.taylorfrancis.com

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · 8d

#MeDeMAP round table on democracy and media about to start in Lisbon. Special thanks for the CICANT folks for making this possible.

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · 13d

The print copies of the "Communication, Media, Cultural Industry" book arrived in Prague. An impressive and fitting tribute and goodbye to the dear Fausto Colombo. I was happy to have a modest contribution there, with Vaia Doudaki and Kirill Filimonov. Ciao, Fausto

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Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · 14d

Happy to see another book review on our Democracy and Media in Europe book, this time in the European Journal of Communication. Thanks to Tingting Hu and Xinyi Wu for their gracious comments (and for correctly pointing to the need to move beyond Europe). See doi.org/10.1177/0267...

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · 19d

CULCORC produced a one-page note on some of the outcomes of the #MeDeMAP research project. With thanks to Karolína Šimková and Jeffrey Wimmer. You can download the note here: www.medemap.eu/wp-content/u...

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · 20d

We'll have another #MeDeMAP roundtable on media and democracy in Europe, this time in Uppsala, Sweden, on 13 November 2025. Special thanks to Peter Jakobsson and the UU dept. of Informatics and Media for their support. All welcome ;)

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Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · 21d

Planned and published articles and books posters at the #MeDeMAP meeting, on media and democracy. Always good to take stock at a research consortium meeting, and take time to celebrate

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · 21d

The #culcorc team at work at the #MeDeMAP consortium meeting in St. Pölten (Austria), with the first results of the analysis of the Czech citizen parliament on media and democracy.

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · 22d

The sixth and last #MeDeMAP consortium meeting has begun. Three days of discussions about media en democracy in the Austrian city of St. Pölten, with a great team.

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · 23d

Last week, Amnesty International released another Urgent Action Alert for Bahruz Samadov and Igbal Abilov, two academics sentenced in Azerbaijan to 15 and 18 years resp., for high treason: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

For more information on Bahruz see www.researchcenterdesire.eu/bahruz-samad...

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · 24d

Today, on 22 September 2025, Mazlum Kemal Dağdelen successfully defended his PhD at #iksz, Charles University, on the construction of Turkishness in Turkish-Cypriot children's magazines. Congratulations to the new Doctor. #proudsupervisor #IAMCR #MeDeMAP

PhD defence, with slide presentation on the thesis

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Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · 27d

Happy to see that the piece I did with Ali Dokumacı for Housing Studies has been published. It's called 'Discursive constructions of the home after homelessness', and it is a case study of the Turkish YouTube channel Kadir's Eye, which documents how people leave the streets of Istanbul ...

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · 29d

Happy to share the good news that our new #MeDeMAP article has been published. "The Grounds of the European Democracy-Media Nexus: Four Conditions of Possibility" was published in Media Watch, written together with Vaia Doudaki and Kirill Filimonov. And it's open access at: doi.org/10.1177/0976...

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · Sep 11

Old-fashioned or not, but I like having a journal issue in my hands. Especially when it has a nice collaborative piece in it, about the institutional and popular construction of European identity ;) & when it's actually open access, at doi.org/10.24434/j.s...

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Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · Sep 11

On 24 October 2025, Vaia Doudaki and I will be part of the Webinar "Citizens’ Parliament: Lessons in Public Participation", organised by the Institute of Policy Studies, at the National University of Singapore. More information at lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/news-events/...

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · Sep 9

IAMCR’s INTER/ACTIONS: Multimodal Academic Communication Task Force launched its report, Media and Communication Research Through a Multimodal Lens, at the 2025 conference in Singapore. The report is short and sweet, and now available for download at: iamcr.org/MCR-report-2...

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Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · Sep 9

The print copy of the edited book "The European Media in the Platform Era" just landed on my desk. It has a great line-up, and I'm proud to be part of it, with a visual essay about the construction of Europeaneity. Kudos to the two editors: Stylianos Papathanassopoulos and Andrea Miconi!

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Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · Sep 6

Found the printed version of the #MeDeMAP Czech Citizen Parliament on Media and Democracy Resolutions Report on my desk. It looks fabulous, I must say. More at medemap.fsv.cuni.cz/op/

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · Sep 2

Congratulations to Gizem Canalp and Aysu Arsoy, for their new article entitled "Echoes of home: Turkish Cypriot IDPs and home perception in the context of ruins". It's a great analysis on the construction of home (in a sad and tragic context) ... More at www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Echoes of home: Turkish Cypriot IDPs and home perception in the context of ruins - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Echoes of home: Turkish Cypriot IDPs and home perception in the context of ruins

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Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · Aug 9

The première of our film, AGON: Constructions of Democracy, will take place at Prague's Ponrepo Kino, on 23 October 2025 at 1pm. Access is free, but prior registration is required. For more about the film essay, see constructionsofdemocracy.eu

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · Aug 2

On 8 October 2025, we'll do another seminar on our "Democracy and Media in Europe" book, this time in Lisbon. All are welcome, if you're around ... More information is at ecati.ulusofona.pt/noticias/ima.... Special thanks to the CICANT research centre for making this possible ...

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · Aug 1

Medijske studije/Media studies just published a review of our Democracy and Media in Europe book. The reviewer, Vanja Pavlov from the University of Split, did quite an exceptional job, which you can find here: hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/483389

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · Jul 31

On 18 April 2025, I did a talk at the SJTU-IAMCR emerging media forum in Shanghai. The emerging media journal then had the kindness of publishing my talk in their colloquium section. It's now available, in open access, at doi.org/10.1177/2752...

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · Jul 25

#MeDeMAP goes to Yogyakarta: On 25 July 2025, Vaia Doudaki and I did a seminar entitled "Citizen Parliament on Media and Democracy: A Tool for Democratic Renewal" at the Dept. of Communications of the Universitas Islam Indonesia. Special thanks to he entire UII team for organising.

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · Jul 24

Call for the release of Bahruz Samadov

On 17 July 2025, at the closing plenary at the Singapore conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (#IAMCR), the members present condemned the conviction of IAMCR member Bahruz Samadov.

Source: iamcr.org/news/release...

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Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · Jul 21

Started my work at the communications dept of the universitas islam Indonesia today. The banner is slightly oversized but still very appreciated, and I'm particularly pleased with the new iteration of the HEH's constructions of Europeanity exhibition.

Nico Carpentier @nicocarpentier.bsky.social · Jul 19

Next stop Yogyakarta. Looking forward to engaging with the good folks (t)here, with a series of lectures and workshops. The Thursday seminar on democratic renewal and citizen parliaments is open to all - feel welcome if you're around!

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