Nico Carpentier
@nicocarpentier.bsky.social
Communication+ Researcher - see http://nicocarpentier.net/
Communication & Media Studies
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Political science
15%
Good to see the faculty of social sciences @cuni support for Bahruz Samadov
Letter-writing marathon in support of our PhD student Bahruz Samadov | Fakulta sociálních věd UK
Join the letter-writing marathon in support of our PhD student Bahruz Samadov, convicted for his critical stances towards the regime in his native Azerbaijan. The event will take place on Tuesday, Dec...
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Feel welcome to join the 2 December 2025 letter-writing marathon in support of the Charles university PhD student Bahruz Samadov, convicted for his critical stances towards the regime in his native Azerbaijan.
For more information, see
fsv.cuni.cz/en/news/lett...
For more information, see
fsv.cuni.cz/en/news/lett...
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The IAMCR 2026 call for papers is out. This year's theme is "Peripheries and Connections: Media, Communication, and Transformation". More at iamcr.org/galway2026
The full video of the #MeDeMAP Round Table on "Imagining New Relations for Media and Democracy: Beyond Defeatism" is now available at bit.ly/MediaDemocra.... It took place on 8 October 25, at the Universidade Lusófona, in Lisbon. Warm thanks to CICANT.
Today, we had a great round table about "Democracy and media in Europe" in Uppsala, Sweden. Warm thanks to Göran Svensson, Johan Lindell and Matilda Tudor for joining the round table (and for all the new ideas), and to Peter Jakobsson for organising and chairing the event. Always great to be back ;)
The second #MeDeMAP save-the-date: In the morning of 13 January 2026, we will have two round tables and a film screening, in Brussels. The round tables are on the EMFA and on the results of the citizen parliaments. More information, including a pre-registration email, is at www.medemap.eu?p=1634
A first #MeDeMAP save-the-date. In the afternoon of 13 January 2026, we will organise a debate about the (future of) democracy and journalism, and a workshop on the MeDeMAP database/map, one of the major outcomes of this research project. More soon at medemap.eu and medemap.fsv.cuni.cz ...
For those in/around Uppsala, Sweden, on 13 November: we'll have another round table discussion on the Democracy and Media in Europe book. All welcome. See also www.uu.se/en/departmen...
This week at #CULCORC, we ran a PhD course on Discourse Studies and Method: Using Discourse-Theoretical Analysis and Discursive-Material Analysis.
Today, the last day, we couldn't resist the opportunity for a group photo. It was a pleasure to work with all of you, and I wish you the very best :)
Today, the last day, we couldn't resist the opportunity for a group photo. It was a pleasure to work with all of you, and I wish you the very best :)
The report of my short visit to the Academy of Film and Creative Technology (AFCT) at XJTLU just got published, and it really captured the atmosphere of that visit (thanks to Yunyi and Wenzhen Li for the report). It shows that I had fun ;)
See:
www.xjtlu.edu.cn/en/news/2025...
See:
www.xjtlu.edu.cn/en/news/2025...
Today, we had a lovely seminar on the Czech citizen parliament on media and democracy (a part of our #MeDeMAP project). Special thanks to the Institute of Policy Studies of the National University of Singapore, and in particular Nicholas Thomas, for organising it and to Vaia Doudaki for joining me.
Today was the première of the film essay 'Agon: Constructions of Democracy' in Kino Ponrepo in Prague, followed by a round table with the directors and DoP. Most enjoyable. With my warn thanks to my colleagues and the entire cast. More about the film essay at www.constructionsofdemocracy.eu
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
You can register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
For more information about the film essay, see constructionsofdemocracy.eu
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.
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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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/...
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
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I wrote it ;) you'll find it here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
#MeDeMAP round table on democracy and media about to start in Lisbon. Special thanks for the CICANT folks for making this possible.
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
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...
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...
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 ;)
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
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.
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...
For more information on Bahruz see www.researchcenterdesire.eu/bahruz-samad...
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
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 ...
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...
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...
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/...