A30 - East of West: Setting a New Central and Eastern European Media Research Agenda

The main objective of the Action is to increase the knowledge concerning media production, media reception and use, and the political implications of the transformation of the media landscape in the Eastern and Central European context. The Action will re-examine the usefulness of Western European and American communication research, media studies and normative theoretical traditions and develop empirically based novel conceptualisation.

Working Groups:

* 1 Research methods and ethics
* 2 Democratic theory and democratic performance of the media
* 3 Media regulation and policy
* 4 Textual analysis and media use