EUMEPLAT in the media
July 2024
Professor Andrea Miconi from IULM University, EUMEPLAT principal investigator, presented the main insights and results of the project in an article for the July issue of APREmagazine, the information magazine on European research and innovation.
The European Research Executive Agency mentioned EUMEPLAT as part of the EU-funded Science for Democracy, a collection of research projects that can help understand and nurture our democracies.
You can read the article (in Italian) here.
June 2024
The European Research Executive Agency mentioned EUMEPLAT as part of the EU-funded Science for Democracy, a collection of research projects that can help understand and nurture our democracies.
You can read the article here.
10 May 2024
The main insights of the scientific publication “News and misinformation consumption: A temporal comparison across European countries” authored by the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice research team (Fabiana Zollo, Alessandro Galeazzi and Anees Baqir) are presented in the article “Falschinformationen spiegeln kulturelle Unterschiede” (Misinformation reflects cultural differences), published by ORF, the Austrian public broadcaster.
The scientific publication is available here.
You can read the press release (in German) here.
9 May 2024
In the article “In Italia le fake news sulla Brexit battono quelle sul Covid” (In Italy, fake news on Brexit beats those on Covid), the research team from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Fabiana Zollo, Alessandro Galeazzi and Anees Baqir) presented the main results about fake news and misinformation included in the scientific publication “News and misinformation consumption: A temporal comparison across European countries”.
The scientific publication is available here.
The article was published by
– Ansa, the main news agency in Italy (here)
– Alto Adige, a press outlet from Alto Adige region in Italy (here)
8 May 2024
Following the release on PLoS ONE of the scientific publication “News and misinformation consumption: A temporal comparison across European countries” authored by the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice research team (Fabiana Zollo, Alessandro Galeazzi and Anees Baqir), the press release “The spread of misinformation varies by topic and by country in Europe” issued by the publisher has been reported on EurekAlert!, the nonprofit news release distribution platform operated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as a resource for journalists and the public.
The research article is available here.
You can read the press release (in English) here.
28 February 2024
In view of the 2024 European Parliament elections, the European Commission published a CORDIS Results Pack on connecting citizens with democracy entitled “New tools and insights to bolster political participation”.
EUMEPLAT has been included among the innovative EU-funded research projects contributing to fostering citizen engagement & democracy ahead of the EU Parliament elections to take place in June 2024.
You can download the publication here and on the European Research Executive Agency website here.
12 February 2024
Dessislava Boshnakova and Stoyko Petkov from the New Bulgarian University presented some of the EUMEPLAT findings regarding the impact and use of social networks, applied to the Bulgarian context in an interview on Radio Focus.
You can read the article, entitled “Проф. Десислава Бошнакова: “Противно на името им, социалните мрежи с времето се оказаха антисоциални и комерсиални”” (Prof. Dessislava Boshnakova: “Contrary to their name, social networks over time turned out to be anti-social and commercial”), and listen to the interview (in Bulgarian) here.
The article has also been redistributed by Varna24 and is accessible here.
12 February 2024
Justine Toms from the New Bulgarian University keep on promoting the EUMEPLAT outcomes on video production and consumption and the resulting policy recommendations in this interview to Euronews Bulgaria entitled “Как стрийминг платформите да имат повече национално съдържание?” (How can streaming platforms have more national content?).
You can listen to the interview (in Bulgarian) here.
2 February 2024
Interviewed by Daniel Nenchev from Radio Bulgaria, Justine Toms and Dessislava Boshnakova from the New Bulgarian University anticipated some of the policy recommendations resulting from the EUMEPLAT project, and in particular the need for a stronger presence of national contents and productions on the streaming platforms.
You can listen to the interview (in Bulgarian) here.
29 January 2024
Justine Toms and Dessislava Boshnakova from the New Bulgarian University were interviewed by Radio Focus on the EUMEPLAT policy recommendations regarding the national contents on streaming platforms.
You can read the article and listen to the interview (in Bulgarian) here.
27 January 2024
Professor Stylianos Papathanassopoulos from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens was a guest in the radio program “Faces of the week” presented by Mina Ralli and aired on the Greek radio channel Voice of Greece.
The interview focused on the evolution of media in the last 30 years and the role of public service media and of social media in Greece and beyond.
You can listen to the interview (in Greek) here.
9 November 2023
Justine Toms from the New Bulgarian University intervened in the Bulgarian National Television programme “Още нещо с Флора (One More Thing with Flora)“, presenting, among others, the EUMEPLAT project and the research data, notably on social media platforms.
You can watch the interview (in Bulgarian) here.
Summary of the episode entitled “Съдебно дело срущу социалните мрежи (A lawsuit has taken social networks by storm)“
The social networks “Instagram” and “Facebook” are dangerous for the mental health of children and are intentionally made to lead to addiction. This is what the attorneys general of 41 American states, who filed the largest lawsuit in the history of social networks against the company “Meta”. Are social networks dangerous?
We will look for the answer to this question now with Justine Toms, marketer, author, teacher.
2 November 2023
Professor Stylianos Papathanassopoulos from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Professor Andrea Miconi from IULM University have been interviewed by Euronews Greece on “Συνέντευξη: Μπορούν τα ευρωπαϊκά ΜΜΕ να καλύψουν τις εν εξελίξει αλλαγές;” (Can the European media cover the ongoing changes?).
The interview was recorded on October 26, on the occasion of the presentation of the book “The Media Systems in Europe; Continuities and Discontinuities” edited by the two academics, and focuses on how the European media, currently facing a radical restructuring, can still provide reliable and timely news and information about the changes occuring in the world.
The book is available here and on the EUMEPLAT Community on Zenodo here.
You can watch the interview (in English) here.
2 October 2023
In the framework of the AMCAP (Association of Media Communication Academic Professional) Doctoral Spring School 2023, Professor Nico Carpentier from Charles University delivered a video lecture on the construction of Europe. Some of the EUMEPLAT research outcomes, and notably the semantic map on the concepts of Europeanity and Europeanization, created by the project research team combining literature reviews and a participatory approach through constant exchanges and workshops organised during the project.
You can watch the video lecture (in English) here.
To discover the semantic map, you can read the article “Bridging the Discursive and Material Dimensions of Europeanity and Europeanisation. A Participatory Semantic Map Approach”. More information here.
27 September 2023
The press release by Charles University featuring the Czech research results from WP3 – Hegemony: Platformization of Video has been published by the Czech version of the European Journalism Observatory.
The article, entitled Normalizační komedie a evropské filmy. Výzkum ukázal, co Češi nejraději sledují na streamovacích platformách (Normalization comedies and European films. The research showed what Czechs like to watch most on streaming platforms) is available here (in Czech).
23 September, 30 September and 7 October 2023
Professor Stylianos Papathanassopoulos from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens was invited to a series of radio conversations on the digital era at Skai Radio to present the EUMEPLAT-branded book “The Media Systems in Europe; Continuities and Discontinuities” he edited with Professor Andrea Miconi from IULM University. and to debate around the trends and challenges in the media sector.
The three episodes (in Greek) are available:
– 23 September here
– 30 September here
– 7 October here
The book is available here and on the EUMEPLAT Community on Zenodo here.
21 August 2023
The news outlet Protothema, counting 1,4 million readers in its digital edition, has issued an article devoted to the publication of the first EUMEPLAT-branded book “The Media Systems in Europe; Continuities and Discontinuities”, edited by Stylianos Papathanassopoulos, Professor in Media Organisation and Policy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and Andrea Miconi, EUMEPLAT principal investigator and Professor at IULM University.
The article Από την αναλογική στην ψηφιακή εποχή: Πώς έχουν αλλάξει τα μέσα ενημέρωσης τα τελευταία 30 χρόνια; (From analog to digital age: How has the media changed in the last 30 years?) is available in Greek here.
You can download the book here and on the EUMEPLAT Community on Zenodo here.
14 July 2023
The main findings from WP2-Fake News: Platformization of Journalism, with a special focus on the Facebook popularity of Czech far-right politician Tomio Okamura in the European context – produced by the Charles University team – are highlighted in the article Okamura je hlavním dezinformátorem v EU. Má největší dosah na sociálních sítích, ukázala analýza (Okamura is the chief disinformer in the EU. It has the greatest reach on social networks, the analysis showed), published by Hospodářské Noviny, one of the most popular online newspapers in Czech Republic.
The article (in Czech) is available here and in its full version here.
16 June 2023
The article Taiwan e l’allarme sulla disinformazione delle dittature (Taiwan and the alarm over the disinformation of dictatorships), published by L’Opinione della Libertà, is devoted to the event “Defending Democracy through Countering Disinformation”, which took place at the Italian Senate on June 13th, with the participation of Andrea Miconi, EUMEPLAT principal investigator and Professor at IULM University, as a speaker.
The article (in Italian) is available here.
14 June 2023
In the TV report Streaming europeo? (European streaming?), Pop News, an Italian all news television channel targeting youth, interviewed Andrea Miconi, EUMEPLAT principal investigator and Professor at IULM, on the project results related to the promotion and circulation of European works in the most famous video platforms. Some street interviews to students were also realized to catch their perceptions and opinions.
The video (in Italian) is available here.
14 June 2023
In the article Quadro globale cooperazione e formazione “Difendere democrazia contrastando disinformazione” (Global Framework Cooperation and Training “Defend democracy by fighting disinformation”) the Giornale Diplomatico, an Italian online newspaper focusing on Italian internal and foreign policy, retraces some of the main outocomes of the event “Defending Democracy through Countering Disinformation”, which took place at the Italian Senate on June 13th and counted among the speakers Andrea Miconi, EUMEPLAT principal investigator and Professor at IULM, coordinator of the project.
The article (in Italian) is available here.
13 June 2023
Radio Radicale has made available the recording of the event “Defending Democracy through Countering Disinformation”, organised on June 13th by the Global Cooperation and Training Framework at the Italian Senate. Professor Andrea Miconi from IULM University, EUMEPLAT principal investigator, was among the speakers to discuss about the possible solutions to tackle disinformation and fake news.
The article and the recording (in Italian) are available here.
13 June 2023
The Taiwanese media outlet The Liberty Times Net published the news 出席義大利參院假訊息研討會 羅秉成：中模仿俄散布疑美論 (Lo Ping-cheng at the Disinformation Symposium of the Italian Senate: China imitated Russia to spread Skepticism), focused on the participation of the Minister in the event “Defending Democracy through Countering Disinformation” held at the Italian Senate on June 13th and in which the EUMEPLAT principal investigator, Professor Andrea Miconi from IULM, took part.
The article (in Chinese) is available here.
24 May 2023
The Czech version of the European Journalism Observatory website has published the insights by Miloš Hroch from Charles University, taken from the academic article “Bridging the Discursive and Material Dimensions of Europeanity and Europeanisation“ – Observatorio (OBS*), Vol. 17 No. 1 (2023).
The insights published on EJO Mohou existovat různé „Evropy“. Nejnovější výzkum ukazuje, jak složité je dnes být Evropanem (Different ‘Europes’ are possible. Latest research shows how complex it is today to be European) are available here. The insights in English are available here.
More details on the academic article “Bridging the Discursive and Material Dimensions of Europeanity and Europeanisation“ are available here.
4, 5, 6 and 8 March 2023
The European audiovisual market, the production and consumption trends and possible measures to face American hegemony, with key messages delivered by Stylianos Papathanassopoulos, Professor in Media Organisation and Policy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, are highlighted in the article Εumeplat: Πόσο έτοιμη είναι η Ευρώπη για την εποχή της «πλατφορμοποίησης»; (Eumeplat: How ready is Europe for the “platformization” era?), published on five online media outlets:
– Mononews (4 March) – article (in Greek) here
– Infocom (4 March) – article (in Greek) here
– Liberal (5 March) – article (in Greek) here
– Pagenews (6 March) – article (in Greek) here
– Advertising (8 March) – article (in Greek) here
2 March 2023
Stylianos Papathanassopoulos, Professor in Media Organisation and Policy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, shares the some insights from WP1, and in particular the role of public television, in the article Eumeplat: Ποια η θέση της δημόσιας Τηλεόρασης στην εποχή των πλατφορμών; (Eumeplat: What is the position of public television in the age of platforms?), published on four online newspapers:
– NewsDesk – article (in Greek) here
– PireasNow – article (in Greek) here
– FinUpNews – article (in Greek) here
– Eleftherostypos – article (in Greek) here
22 February 2023
The main findings and results of the research work undertaken under WP1 are presented by Stylianos Papathanassopoulos, Professor in Media Organisation and Policy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in the article Εumeplat: Οι νέες πλατφόρμες αποδομούν ή σφυρηλατούν την ευρωπαϊκή ταυτότητα; (Eumeplat: Are new platforms deconstructing or forging European identity?), published on the online newspaper Protothema.
You can read the article (in Greek) here.
27 October 2022
The contribution by Miguel Crespo, researcher at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, during the EUMEPLAT online workshop on “Media and Information Literacy: the Role of Academia and Media Experts”, is highlighted in the article Cidadãos partem das notícias dos jornalistas mas acrescentam-lhes informação (Citizens start from the news by journalists, but add information to them) published on Iberifer.
You can read the article (in Portuguese) here.
September 2022
The European Commission included EUMEPLAT in the factsheet devoted to the Horizon projects on media and democracy.
The objectives of the factsheet “Media & Democracy – EU research and innovation protecting media integrity” are:
– inform the public about the importance of free, independent and plural media to foster democracy;
– raise awareness about running Horizon projects on media, including social media; disinformation & foreign interference; freedom of the press and transparency in the media sector; evolution in the way media is produced, used and consumed in the EU; science journalism and its impact on trust in the media;
– complement the communication about the Media Freedom Act.
You can download the factsheet here and on the website of the Publications Office of the European Union here.
18 March 2022
Miguel Crespo, researcher at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, talks about EUMEPLAT on 90 Segundos de Ciência, a radio programme aired on the Portuguese public broadcasters RTP and giving voice to the Portuguese researchers.
You can listen to the interview (in Portuguese) here.
11 November 2021
The EUMEPLAT project, its research questions, expected results and first outcomes are explained in the article by Stylianos Papathanassopoulos, Professor in Media Organisation and Policy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in the article Ευρωπαϊκό ερευνητικό πρόγραμμα για τις πλατφόρμες των μέσων επικοινωνίας (European research programme on media platforms), published on the outlet Media Analysis.
You can read the article (in Greek) here.