Alessio Cornia is Assistant Professor and chair of the MA in Social Media Communications at Dublin City University and Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. His research interest is comparative research on political communication and journalism, with a focus on the relationship between media and politics, news industry developments, digital news, social media platforms, media coverage of corruption, and EU journalism. He is the DCU research team lead for the EU-funded project ‘CO.R.E.: COrruption Risk indicators in Emergency’ and Co-PI for the H2020 project ‘MEDIATIZED EU: Mediatized Discourses on Europeanization and Their Representations in Public Perceptions’. He was previously Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute and Researcher at the University of Perugia, where he completed a PhD in Social and Political Theory and Research. He has published a monograph on EU journalists in Brussels and several articles in academic journals including Media, Culture and Society, the International Journal of Press/Politics, the European Journal of Communication, Journalism, Journalism Studies, and the Journal of Risk Research.

Lawrence Pintak, PhD is an award-winning journalist, academic leader, and media development expert who has reported from four continents and led projects aimed at bolstering journalistic professionalism and independence and improving journalism education in the Middle East, South Asia, Africa, and the Caucasus. He served as dean of the Graduate School of Media and Communications at The Aga Khan University in East Africa, founding dean of The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University, helped establish Pakistan’s Centre for Excellence in Journalism, and directed the Arab world’s only professionally focused journalism master’s degree in the years leading up to the Arab Spring. A former CBS News Middle East correspondent, Pintak is the author of five books at the intersection of media, religion, democracy, and international relations. He was named a Fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists in 2017 for “extraordinary service to the profession of journalism” around the world and was recipient of both the Senior Scholar award from the Association of Journalism and Mass Communications Educators (AEJMC) and the inaugural Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award from the AEJMC’s Religion and Media Interest Group.  He holds a PhD in Islamic Studies.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS The Department of Media Studies invites you to the 13th International Conference Bridges of Media Education to be held on 26th and 27th May 2023 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. The key theme of the conference in 2023 is: Media On/In Crisis Three years into the global pandemic of COVID-19, more than ten months after the start of the war in Ukraine, and with the environmental risks posing more imminent threat, the crisis coverage is dominating the news. All these events prompted governments to communicate more strategically, limiting in some cases the freedom of expressions. Journalists are attempting to cope with the work in a digitally saturated environment, in which disinformation spreads at ever growing pace. In some countries, political and media polarization is further deepening and the crisis events serve as accelerators for the social divisions. News reporting about pandemic, war, climate and other crises events that would bring accurate and trustworthy accounts is ever more needed, and at the same time harder to achieve. Globally, the economic crisis is hitting media organisations. After the short period of rising consumption and rising trust in news, the media are now faced with

CALL FOR PROPOSALS The Department of Media Studies invites you to the 13th International Conference Bridges of Media Education to be held on 26th and 27th May 2023 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. The key theme of the conference in 2023 is: Media On/In Crisis Three years into the global pandemic of COVID-19, more than ten months after the start of the war in Ukraine, and with the environmental risks posing more imminent threat, the crisis coverage is dominating the news. All these events prompted governments to communicate more strategically, limiting in some cases the freedom of expressions. Journalists are attempting to cope with the work in a digitally saturated environment, in which disinformation spreads at ever growing pace. In some countries, political and media polarization is further deepening and the crisis events serve as accelerators for the social divisions. News reporting about pandemic, war, climate and other crises events that would bring accurate and trustworthy accounts is ever more needed, and at the same time harder to achieve. Globally, the economic crisis is hitting media organisations. After the short period of rising consumption and rising trust in news, the media are now faced with

Václav Štětka Loughborough University, UK Václav Štětka is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at, Loughborough University (UK), and Principal Investigator of “The Illiberal Turn” project. His research interests encompass political communication, the role of media in the rise of populism and polarization, and the relationship between media and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. He is an active contributor to several international research projects and networks, including the Digital News Report (Oxford University), Media Pluralism Monitor (European University Institute in Florence), or the Network of European Political Communication Scholars (NEPOCS). Since 2019 he is member of the Committee for Editorial Independence of the Czech media house Economia. Bogusława Dobek-Ostrowska Institute of Political Science at the University of Wrocław, Poland Bogusława Dobek-Ostrowskais a professor of communication and chair of the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Wrocław in Poland. She is a founder of, and she was the first president of the Polish Communication Association (2007–2013). She was the President of International Federation of Communication Associations (2010–2012). She is a founder and she was an editor of Central European Journal of Communication,the official journal of Polish CommunicationAssociation. She is a

The Department of Media Studies invites you to the 12th International Conference Bridges of Media Education to be held on 27th and 28th May 2022 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. The key theme of the conference in 2022 is: Pluralism in the online environment: perspectives of users, journalists and media. For additional information please click here.

Please visit our “BME Publications” section to download our BME 2018 Edited Volume in PDF.

We are pleased to announce that the paper submission deadline has been extended until 1st October 2019. Please use or form to send us your paper. Make sure that it follows our paper guidelines.

THE 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “BRIDGES OF MEDIA EDUCATION 2019” The Department of Media Studies invites you to the 11th International Conference Bridges of Media Education 2019 to be held on 13th and 14th September 2019 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia.

The official Book of Abstracts BME 2018 is now available. You can download it  here. Our earlier Conference publications are on this link.